Shuffle #80 (January 6, 2016)

Think For A Minute – The Housemartins

It’s Gonna Take A Miracle – Deniece Williams

Raise It Up – The IMPACT Repertory Theatre & Jamia Simone Nash

Trampled Under Foot – Led Zeppelin

Can We Still Be Friends – Todd Rundgren

Real Love – The Doobie Brothers

Driving With The Brakes On – Del Amitri

Hungry Heart – Bruce Springsteen

Rattle My Bones – The Secret Sisters

Favorite 25 + 5 Albums Trivia

Top albums (25 studio + 5 live) by decade:

1960s – 3

    #14  The Temptations – In A Mellow Mood (1967)

    #17  Gordon Lightfoot – The Way I Feel (1967)

    #24  Cold Blood (1969)

1970s – 11

1980s – 9

1990s – 3

2000s – 3

2010s – 1

    #4 [LIVE]  Into the Mirror: Del Amitri Live in Concert (2014)

 

Top year – 1971:

    #10  Carole King – Tapestry

    #11  Who’s Next – The Who

    #19  John Prine

    #2 [LIVE]  The Youngbloods – Ride The Wind

    #3 [LIVE]  The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East

Natalie Cole

2015 ended on a sad note with Natalie Cole’s death on December 31^st at the age of 65. She began her career as a successful soul singer – “This Will Be” is one of the sassiest and best examples of that genre – and later moved on to perform the standards of an earlier age. For better or worse, she’s probably best known for her posthumous duet “Unforgettable” with her father, the great singer and pianist Nat King Cole. I’m normally not a fan of virtual duets, especially when one of the partners has to be summoned back from the grave, but this one’s a glorious exception.

 

My personal Natalie Cole favorites:

 

This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)

Unforgettable

I’ve Got Love On My Mind

Inseparable

Someone That I Used To Love

Shuffle #79 (January 3, 2016)

Careless Love – Madeleine Peyroux

Darkest Hour – Arlo Guthrie

This Is How It Feels To Have A Broken Heart – Guster

Similar Features – Melissa Etheridge

Deep & Wide & Tall – Aztec Camera

Train In Vain – The Clash

Broken Down Cowboy – John Fogerty

Scared To Live – Del Amitri

Let’s Go Crazy -- Prince