The End Of The Summer – Dar Williams
Hello? Goodbye! – Lake Street Dive
Take Five – Dave Brubeck Quartet
Amen – The Impressions
Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley
Let The Four Winds Blow – Fats Domino
Think (About It) – Lyn Collins
Can’t Stop Killing You – Kirsty MacColl
The Boy’s Gone – Jason Mraz
The title of this column by Matt Bai says it all. Especially notable is its take on the situation in Montgomery County, Maryland (where I reside).
Like the band’s music, there’s nothing fancy about this
compilation: it contains all 20 of their singles that hit the Hot 100, in
order.* As I write this, it’s been on the “Billboard 200” album chart for 506
weeks (#66, week of January 23, 2021). If that’s not enough, Chronicle: Volume Two contains 20
additional tracks from their seven LPs, including classics such as “Born On The
Bayou” and “The Midnight Special”.
The CD package also features a nice write-up by legendary music
journalist Greil Marcus, who characterizes the band’s music as “rock and roll with
no excuses given, no questions asked.”
* - OK, their epic 11-minute cover of “I Heard It Through
The Grapevine” is track 16, placed logically with the other cuts from Cosmo’s Factory, although the edited
version was not released as a single until several years later, after the group
had disbanded.
Favorite tracks:
Lodi
Run Through The Jungle
Down On The Corner
Green River
Lookin’ Out My Back Door
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Fortunate Son
Bad Moon Rising
Proud Mary
