As a child, I don’t remember hearing a single song on the radio or television by the band the Velvet Underground. They just weren’t a band I ever heard anybody really talk about while I was growing up. I started to hear the name more when I was in college, but I still didn’t know …
I had absolutely no idea that this song by King Harvest was a cover until now. This is the only version of the song I’ve ever heard played anywhere, which I guess is a testament to just how good of a cover it is. Funny enough, when I first learned that the band Thin Lizzy …
I previously mentioned how I’ve been trying to learn Spanish over the last couple of years, listening to Spanish radio in my car in an effort to help with that. Before the pandemic, I would usually chat with my coworker Michelle, a well-versed Spanish speaker, about the various songs I was getting into. A lot …
On my first trip to London for work, my bosses and I took a ride to Cambridgeshire to meet with some representatives from Meridian Audio, a high-end audio equipment manufacturer. After a short meeting and a fantastic tour of their facility, we ended up in their theater room for a demonstration of their gear. We …
I posted two songs from 1996 yesterday, one of which was by Blackstreet. So I thought, why not post one more song from 1996 and another by a group named Blackfield? I say that facetiously, of course, as I certainly didn’t plan this out ahead of time, but it is a nice coincidence that some …
High school was the time where I really started to have a deeper focus and appreciation for playing and enjoying music. I had abandoned playing sports by that point, much to the chagrin of my father, but music became a fine substitute that kept me occupied and out of trouble. Recently, I was thinking about …
It’s interesting to me how you can sometimes listen to a singer and hear a lyric completely differently than what it actually is. The first song I always think of in this vein is “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival. When they sing “there’s a bad moon on the rise,” early on my friends …
The second time I attended Record Store Day it was even bigger and crazier than the first. Despite getting to the store earlier than we had the previous year, we were farther back in line. When the store finally opened, it was a mad dash to the main bins holding the day’s releases. By the …
It’s hard for me to believe that it’s been 30 years since 1992. At that time I was still in elementary school, on the verge of finishing 5th grade and going into 6th. It honestly doesn’t feel like that long ago, but I suppose that might be a good thing. I was thinking about this …
The first of today’s songs originally came to my attention through a cover version done by one of my favorite bands, Primus. Primus came out with an EP many years ago called Rhinoplasty, which consisted of a few originals by the band and some covers, this Jerry Reed song being one of them. For quite …