Why good intentions aren’t enough – the “sloppily designed” Stop BEZOS
Act is likely to hurt rather than help low-income working families.
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Shuffle #111 (September 8, 2018)
All Is Mine –
The Association
Let The Good
Times Roll – Eva Cassidy & Chuck Brown
The Drinking
Gourd – Joe & Eddie
I’m A Man –
Chicago
Six Man Band
– The Association
10 Rocks –
Shelby Lynne
I Still
Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For – U2
The Summer
Wind – Frank Sinatra
68 Guns –
The Alarm
Monday, September 3, 2018
September 2, 2018 – Brewers 9, Nats 4 – Nationals Park
Attendance: 33,032
Duration: 3:22
Weather: 88 degrees, Partly cloudy
Wind: S 7 MPH
Umpires: HP: Hoberg. 1B: Knight. 2B: Whitson. 3B: Carlson.
Game notes – Nats starter Jefry Rodriguez walked the first two batters
of the game, both of whom scored on Mike Moustakas’s single … Nats narrowed the
deficit an inning later on Difo’s homer, and took the lead with 3 in the in the
3rd, on singles by Soto and Reynolds after loading the bases … the
Brewers basically put the game away by scoring 7 runs with 2 out in the 5th
inning, starting when Rodriguez yielded a 3-run homer to Keon Broxton … things
went from bad to worse when Tim Collins relieved Rodriguez with 2 on, walked
the next batter on 4 pitches, then served up a grand slam to Christian Yelich …
Washington pitchers tied a team record for a 9-inning game by walking 11 (7 by
Rodriguez) … Austen Williams made his major league debut and provided 2
scoreless innings in relief of Collins
Note – After the game, Davey said that several relievers were
unavailable, which led him to keep Rodriguez (whose 100 pitches included 50
balls and 50 strikes) in the game even after the Broxton homer. There’s really
no excuse for a major league team to be short of pitchers in September with the
25-man roster limit no longer in effect, but the team’s decision to delay
calling up additional bullpen help (beyond Williams) is on management (and
ownership?), not on Martinez.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
Shuffle #110 (September 2, 2018)
He Thinks He’ll
Keep Her – Mary Chapin Carpenter
Save Your
Heart For Me – Gary Lewis & The Playboys
Annie Get
Your Gun – Squeeze
Amsterdam –
Guster
You’ll Never
Get To Heaven – Dionne Warwick
Short People
– Randy Newman
Runaway –
Iain Matthews
The Same
Love That Made Me Laugh – Queen Latifah
Some Bridges
Need Burning – Keisa Brown
Saturday, September 1, 2018
Shuffle #109 (September 1, 2018)
How She
Threw It All Away – The Style Council
Angie – The Rolling
Stones
Sara –
Fleetwood Mac
Son’s Gonna
Rise – Citizen Cope
Chapel In
The Moonlight – The Bachelors
Quiet
Corners & Empty Spaces – The Jayhawks
Rolling In
The Deep – Adele
Crosseyed
And Painless – Talking Heads
Do I Love
You? – The Ronettes
Monday, August 27, 2018
#192 We'll Sing In The Sunshine – Gale Garnett (1964)
We'll sing in the
sunshine
Then I'll be on my
way
Gale Garnett both wrote and recorded this classic, which won the 1964
Grammy for Best Folk Recording. Just a year after Little Peggy March topped the
charts with “I Will Follow Him”, this one stands with Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t
Own Me” as an early anthem of female empowerment. (More importantly, they're both great songs.)
#191 Hole In The Wall – The Packers (1965)
This is one of those instrumentals that stuck in my head ever since I
first heard it. The overall sound is very similar to the live version of “The
In-Crowd” by the Ramsey Lewis Trio earlier that same year. Although the Packers
were apparently an actual band that recorded two albums, it’s worth noting that
this one was co-written by three of the members of Booker T. & The MG’s,
two of whom also play on the recording.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
#190 I Wanna Be With You – The Raspberries (1973)
I originally planned to start this entry by remarking that this song
should surely be in the “Power Pop Hall of Fame”, should such a thing exist.
Oddly enough, such a thing DOES exist, albeit only online. Like its more famous
counterpart, it contains artists (22 if I counted correctly) rather than songs,
but the Raspberries are in fact there, along with other personal favorites such
as the Smithereens and Teenage Fanclub. (No Marshall Crenshaw, unfortunately.)
The Raspberries didn’t stay around very long, although Eric Carmen went on to a
successful solo career, but "Go All the Way", "Let's
Pretend", and "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)” are also more than
worth hearing. It’s really the guitar riff that kicks off the song and is
repeated thereafter that, for me, elevates “I Wanna Be with You” above the
rest.
#189 Ain't It Fun – Paramore (2014)
Hayley Williams and Paramore have certainly come a long way from “Misery
Business” to this one, although the song’s lyrics aren’t exactly as upbeat as
the positive title and bouncy music would suggest. I definitely agree with one critic’s suggestion that this recording is a perfect accompaniment for high
school graduation ceremonies. I also think that the line “Don’t go crying to
your mama” would be a great chant for the student sections at college
basketball games to direct at visiting team coaches whining about personal foul
calls.
#188 Cry Like A Baby – The Box Tops (1968)
The Box Tops are best-known for their debut single “The Letter”, which hit
#1 in 1967. (Although I like the concise 1:58 original, I prefer Joe Cocker’s
raucous and much longer 1970 remake.) Although the band’s material was not
always the greatest, “Cry Like A Baby” is a blue-eyed soul classic, co-written
by Spooner Oldham (who also played keyboards on the recording) and the great
Dan Penn, whose body of work also includes another one of my all-time favorites. Singer Alex Chilton, who went on to become an indie-rock cult
favorite after the Box Tops disbanded and inspired a musical tribute by the
Replacements, throws in a sly reference near the end to “You Left The Water Running”, another great (but little-known) tune co-written by Penn.
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