Another perceptive column by Steven Pearlstein
Monday, April 13, 2020
Wall Street’s next big ask: A bailout for ‘junk’ credit
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/10/wall-streets-next-big-ask-bailout-junk-credit/
Plans to contain virus emerge in bottom-up effort
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/04/10/contact-tracing-coronavirus-strategy/
Test (extensively) + trace + quarantine = eventual success
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
John Prine
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/john-prine-obit-253684/
One of the greatest debut albums of all time – and quite a few
noteworthy songs after that, as well. I saw him perform at Wolf Trap on August
27, 2004, with Kris Kristofferson opening.
Favorite songs:
Your Flag Decal Won’t Get You Into Heaven Anymore
Angel From Montgomery
Sam Stone
Please Don’t Bury Me
Dear Abby
Illegal Smile
Jesus The Missing Years
Hello In There
It’s A Big Old Goofy World
Friday, April 3, 2020
Bill Withers
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bill-withers-obituary-977929/
I love Questlove’s comment that “Bill Withers is the closest thing
black people have to a Bruce Springsteen.”
Favorite songs:
Ain’t No Sunshine
Lovely Day
Who Is He (And What Is He To You)?
Use Me
Kissing My Love
Lean On Me
Harlem
Grandma’s Hands
I Can't Write Left Handed
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
A short playlist for April 1
Fools Fall In Love – The Drifters
Why Do Fools Fall In Love – Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things) – Martha & The Vandellas
I Fooled You This Time – Gene Chandler
Only A Fool Would Say That – Steely Dan
Monday, March 30, 2020
A few songs for our time
Splendid Isolation – Warren Zevon
Don’t Stand So Close To Me – The Police
No Particular Place To Go – Chuck Berry
Keep Your Distance – Richard Thompson
In My Room – The Beach Boys
Paradise For One – James Hunter Six
Sunday, March 29, 2020
Lyric Of The Day #6 (March 29, 2020)
I'm a man of means by no means
A classic line from Roger Miller’s best-known song (and biggest hit). Also
one of the greatest songs of all time with finger-snapping.
Lyric Of The Day #5 (March 29, 2020)
I get slandered, libeled,
I hear words I never heard in the Bible
Nice pair of lines from the great Paul Simon.
Monday, March 23, 2020
LP #30 Indigo Girls – All That We Let In (2004)
Prior to writing up the Indigo Girls last November, I went back and
listened to the dozen (!) studio albums of theirs that I own, as well as the
double-disc live album 1200 Curfews.
This mid-career effort emerged as my particular favorite. I’ve always loved
“Fill It Up Again”, but I came to realize that the whole thing actually works
from beginning to end.
Favorite tracks:
Rise Up
All That We Let In
Perfect World
Dairy Queen
Heartache For Everyone
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Lyric Of The Day #4 (March 22, 2020)
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
Although it got very little notice on this side of the Atlantic, this
past Friday morning, at the suggestion of a Dutch radio host, stations in over
20 European countries simultaneously (7:45 a.m. U.K. time/8:45 C.E.T.)
interrupted their usual programming to play this song to boost morale during
the coronavirus outbreak.
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