Friday not-random Ten: ten favorite songs about California
I’ve been so pleased by the way California bucked national trends this week; while much of the nation turned right, the great and good Golden State turned left. The campaigns I cared most about turned...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: “I Forgot to Buy an Advent Calendar” Edition
Usually I have more female than male artists show up in my FRT, but not this time around. And #10 is one of my “life signature” tracks (and it was a theme song to my courtship with the woman who is now...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: music for drying out Los Angeles edition
“You’re so white”, a student of mine commented after a quick perusal of my iPod music. And yeah, this FRT gives no evidence to the contrary. Jesse Thomas is one of my favorite discoveries of the past...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: and I shall keep offering these edition
Does anyone do Friday Random Tens anymore? Is this some vestige of 2006 to which I came late and have clung too long? Perhaps. In any event, hitting shuffle on the iTunes gave me the following this...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: Farewell to Charlie edition
Charlie Louvin, one of the great pioneers of country music (and, with his brother, members of the pre-eminent country gospel outfit of the past six decades) died this week. One of my favorite Louvin...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: proud public servant edition
Ain’t nobody else out there who knows and likes all ten of these artists. I wouldn’t bet my mortgage on that, but close. 1. “Alabaster”, Oh Susanna 2. “Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song”, B.J....
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: blissikins edition
I can’t remember the last time I had a Friday Random Ten I liked more — I’ve loved Clark and Cash, Los Lobos and Steve Earle for decades. I fell in love with the Jennys and Buddy Miller a few years...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: Erev Purim edition
When my new blog/website template comes in, I doubt I’ll be doing Friday Random Tens. But I’ve been listening to a lot of good music lately, so want to keep sharing. This week’s random tracks from...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: twenty years of college teaching edition
No foolin’ about the quality of these terrific songs. We saw Mtukudzi in concert last weekend at UCLA, and downloaded #7 as soon as I got home. #4 was and is in so many ways a theme song for me, and...
View ArticleFriday Random Ten: Royal Wedding Edition
Other than the bonus, these tracks have nothing to do with the royal wedding and are as random as can be. Since my “random” function favors recently played tracks, and since I’ve been playing the heck...
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