Friday Favorite Feature 44 — Doyle Bramhall II playlist

You’ve heard me mention Doyle Bramhall II a time or 2.  Over the break I decided to create a Spotify playlist of my favorite songs from the albums I have of his.  I played this playlist MANY times since creating it and it is solid.  Please give his music a listen and let me know…

#MMB 2025– July — “Black Day in July,” by Gordon Lightfoot

[I wrote the song] as a newspaper man would write an article.— Gordon Lightfoot, about “Black Day in July”   Gordon Lightfoot remains one of my most beloved love song writers/balladeers, but he’s just as phenomenal at chronicling impactful bits of human history.  Most everybody knows his song, “Edmund Fitzgerald.”  He’s written about colonizing nature’s…

#SLS — “Down to You,” by Joni Mitchell, from Court and Spark

Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark is #113 on the 2012 list and #110 in the 2020 list of Rolling Stone Magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Court and Spark was Joni’s 6th studio album. It was an immediate commercial and critical success—and remains her most successful album. I’m actually surprised at…

Esther Chilton’s “Can You Tell A Story In…” 284

Sugar CookiesAfter Dr. Quack’s brain operation on me, I smell vanilla on full moons. I attracted Harry on a midnight walk and imagined sugar cookies as he bit me. Now, on certain days, we keep the pram canopy closed. Esther Chilton is the host of Can You Tell A Story In…  Esther says: Can you…