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I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Bad news for Ron DeSantis is great news for America.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

This blog will pay for itself.

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I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

I was promised a recession.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

We still have time to mess this up!

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

The words do not have to be perfect.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

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Roots, “I Don’t Care” (2004)
This came up on shuffle this week and sounded pretty good. Here’s a link in case the video embed doesn’t work again. Still working on that one. Also, somebody requested Junior Kimbrough last week, so here’s his “Keep Your Hands Off Her.” What sounded good to you this week? Or treat as an open thread.

ETA: Video embed success! Huzzah!

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  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @JPK: I was listening to Anna Calvi earlier and “Exile on Main Street” was playing until this post came up.

  5. 5.

    gnomedad

    @JPK:

    Yep though I haven’t quite got the hang of it yet, but I’ll get there!

    And a single, completely appropriate tag is the best you could come up with?

  9. 9.

    Steeplejack

    I’ve gone completely retro this week. Drove home from Atlanta on Tuesday and found myself stuck on the ’60s channel on Sirius. One of those experiences of listening to stuff that you haven’t listened to in a long time because you got sick of listening to it but now it all sounds sort of new because you haven’t listened to it in so long.

    The one that stuck in my mind was Chris Montez’s “Call Me,” which I couldn’t remember hearing in forever. Kind of weird to look it up on YouTube, because I would have sworn it was some Brazilian chick singing–Astrud Gilberto’s younger sister, maybe. Hmm. Makes you think.

  15. 15.

    Martin

    Playing right now:

    “That’s the biggest black ass I’ve ever seen, and I like it a lot.”

    Catchy song, and cracks me up every time I hear it.

  21. 21.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Martin: I liked the opening credits of the movie. I did not know it was Karen O. Now that I know, it is obvious. Funny how that works.

  27. 27.

    Steeplejack

    @piratedan:

    The Lovin’ Spoonful–one of my favorite underrated ’60s groups.

    “Coconut Grove” is my favorite of their non-hit songs. (I like the video the poster matched to the song.) Good Zal Yanovsky guitar from the bottom of an echo chamber.

    Which leads to his excellent crossover guitar work on “Nashville Cats.”

    And the record man said every one is a yellow Sun record from Nashville
    and up north here ain’t nobody buys them and I said but I will

  41. 41.

    Evolving Deep Southerner

    @Linda Featheringill: Thank you, Miss Linda.

    I heard that song on a “Southern Music Sampler” CD from Oxford American Magazine back in 2009 or maybe 2010. The magazine was wildly uneven, but their music samplers … Oh My Goodness, wonderful things, year in and year out.

  43. 43.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Going all 60s today–The Easybeats “Friday on My Mind” and Love’s “Da Capo” album.

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Linda Featheringill: Amazing, isn’t he? A couple of years ago, I drove from NOLA to Memphis on Hwy 61 and I made a point of stopping (illegally) to get a photo of the memorial at the generally accepted Crossroads (Hwys 61 & 49). The Mississippi Delta is a desolate and poverty-stricken place. You can see why the blues originated there. And you can see why anyone with talent went to Memphis and then Chicago as soon as they could.

  46. 46.

    Jewish Steel

    @Jager: Damn, Jager. That just blew my mind.

    One Youtube commenter (don’t ask me why I looked) said Delp did a better McCartney than McCartney. It’s true.

  48. 48.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: I also drove so damn carefully through MS. I was in a silver Saab with WI plates. I’ve been told I can sound like Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons when I speak and and I had a European born, hot blonde with me. Not a set of characteristics that would work well with local law enforcement. At least, not according to rumor.

  49. 49.

    handy

    OK fellow BJers, need help solving a mystery. Coworkers and I discussing this one but couldnt come up with artist nor song. The details:

    -uptempo 70s anthemic rock song
    -singer sounds like brad delp (checked a bunch of Boston stuff on Youtube and Amazon and not it)
    -organ riff strongly reminiscent of Roundabout (this is what started the conversation actually)

    So…any ideas? :)

  51. 51.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jewish Steel: I can’t sing anymore and any instrument I’ve ever played gets tucked under my chin, so I have never had that problem. That is one of Johnson’s things though. You know he didn’t lay down the tracks separately; he played as he sang and did both so damn well. I can give you directions to the Crossroads if it would help.

  58. 58.

    MikeJ

    @handy: Argent? Sort of a spin off of the Zombies as they went into the 70s? Named after Rod Argent (of the Zombies), best known for “Hold Your Head Up”.

  60. 60.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: I said “Don’t start.” It really really does matter to my continued employment in a job that actually affects and benefits many people across the state that I do not answer questions like that. I know you find it amusing, but it is a serious matter for me. I am asking that you please refrain from this line of questions from now on. Okay?

  65. 65.

    MikeJ

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I drove from NOLA to Memphis on Hwy 61 and I made a point of stopping (illegally) to get a photo of the memorial at the generally accepted Crossroads (Hwys 61 & 49).

    Illegally? There’s a giant guitar zooming into the sky there. I have a picture of me there too, along with a t-shirt with a quote from Boogie Chillen by JLH (“The boy’s got it in him, and it;s got to come out.”)

    And it felt so gooood.

  67. 67.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: Apolo accepted. I can talk national or international politics, but I really cannot discuss state or local.

    @MikeJ: It was already dark, there was traffic, and I then saw the guitars…. I just pulled off the road and up over the curb. About an hour later, we ended up eating at the Catfish Cabin near the airport in Memphis that was obviously the place where well-off AA families brought Grandma for a good down-home meal. Fucking amazing.

  68. 68.

    Little Boots

    damn.

    I feel awful.

    I feel like Omnes is pissed cause he thinks I’m just playing around with him. I’m not. I really wanted his opinion.
    sucks.

    hope he’s okay.

  70. 70.

    Little Boots

    sorry again, Omnes.

    I’m not like that. i’m not interested in putting you in a difficult position.

    so santorum, whadda ya think?

  71. 71.

    MikeJ

    @Omnes Omnibus: Leonard’s BBQ (more upscale) or the 4-Way grill (more downhome) are where I would have gone, but I grew up there. But I have been to Catfish Cabin a few times too.

  72. 72.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @MikeJ: I got a hotel through Priceline that was near the airport. We were just in Memphis for the night. On a previous trip, we had stayed downtown and “done” Memphis. Loved, loved, loved the Stax museum. Also too, Rendezvous.

  74. 74.

    suzanne

    @Martin: LOVE that cover.

    I’ve been listening to Mahler recently, but I have Bob Mould’s “See A Little Light” in my head. One of my favorite songs ever.

  76. 76.

    Jager

    @Jewish Steel:

    Mrs J and I saw BeatleJuice one snowy night at Johnny D’s in “Slummerville”. Delp and the band would start with the early Beatles and work through the years song by song, set by set. They played the music so well if you closed your eyes you thought you were listening to the originals. No talking between songs, no bullshit and no Boston.

    They raised lots of money for school music programs all over new England.

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: Dude, I posted this song already. You commented on it. Diff version – yours, from The Last Waltz, is awesome. The Staples Singers were part of it, never a bad thing.

  90. 90.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @handy: God, I hated that song when it was popular and I hate it today. No offense intended to any dain bramaged Kansas fans in the house.

  93. 93.

    MikeJ

    @JPK:First time I ever saw REM the dBs opened, both bands played together on the encore. If I’m right about the show, it’s the one where Holsapple taught Buck how to play Television’s See No Evil on stage while they were playing it. (Graham Chapel at WashU in St. Louis.) Saw them again at the Blue Note in Columbia, Mo, the Channel in Boston, some club I don’t remember in Memphis (somewhere downtown, IIRC).

    Still one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

  97. 97.

    handy

    @MikeJ:

    Were you the one who linked “Amplifier” a few months ago during one of these late Friday night music threads? I swear I must have played that over and over that weekend LOL!

  119. 119.

    Paul in KY

    @Steeplejack: I don’t know how ‘underrated’ they are. They went to the Hall based off of 2 songs basically (‘Do You Believe in Magic’ & ‘Summer in the City’).

    Plus (I guess) the song you linked to. There’s several bands that had way more success/great songs that are probably never gonna get in.

  120. 120.

    Paul in KY

    Gonna see The Roots at Bonnaroo this year. Got a tic & I’m lucky I did. Hard one to get this year.

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