Rambling Rhoads: 2021-04-18

As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Shuffle #145 (April 24, 2021)

A Woman In Love (It’s Not Me) – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Breakdown – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Don’t Worry Baby – Los Lobos

See How We Are – X

The Wood Song – Indigo Girls

I Believe – The Bachelors

Turn The World Around – Eddy Arnold

My True Story – The Jive Five

Private Idaho – The B-52’s

Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon

Monday, April 19, 2021

Favorite Best-Of Albums: Jesse Winchester – The Best Of

Although I noted Winchester’s untimely passing seven years ago, and a couple months earlier had described the difficulty I had in getting hold of this album, I had never posted a list of my favorite Jesse Winchester songs. Fortunately, they’re all on this excellent 25-track French import. (Good luck finding a copy of the CD, although I suspect most if not all of the tracks are available from iTunes.)

Favorite tracks:

Nothing But A Breeze

The Brand New Tennessee Waltz

Mississippi, You’re On My Mind

The End Is Not In Sight

Blow On Chilly Wind

Midnight Bus

Third Rate Romance

Say What

Let The Rough Side Drag

All Your Own Stories