Edwin Starr, War
Seems like a good song to be running through my head on a morning where the Orange Menace in the White House just started a war with Iran. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.
Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2026
Amy Rigby, Hell-Oh Sixty
We saw Amy Rigby in New Orleans last week in an art gallery that was in a shotgun shack with about 25 people, and it was awesome. Everyone should get to see one of their favorite musicians in a setting like that. It was a combination music performance and reading from her new autobiography, Girl To Country (which covers stuff that happened after the events in her first autobiography, Girl To City). She opened the show with this song from her 2024 album Hang In There With Me. It's a song I loved from the first time I heard it, and it's been stuck in my brain ever since we saw her. As someone in his early sixties, it really resonated with me.
Link to Amy Rigby, Hell-Oh Sixty
Posted on Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Darwin Deez, The Bomb Song
I shot a roll of Lomography Lomochrome Turquoise in my Leica R4, which is a false color film that turns the blue sky orange. The shots looked apocalyptic. And they brought this song to mind. I mean, the sky is green in the song instead of orange, but you get the idea. It's been in and our of my ear ever since. It's a catchy little tune about unrequited love in the wake of nuclear war. It seems to fit the times. Sadly, he didn't do a video for this one. He did for several of the other tunes on this album; check out Radar Detector and Constellations.
Link to Darwin Deez, The Bomb Song
Posted on Monday, January 26, 2026
Oscar the Grouch, B Sandwich
Laura and I were working on adding fairy lights to a part of her outfit for Mardi Gras when this song from my childhood came unbidden into my brain. I was a little old for Sesame Street, but my brother was the right age, so we had a bunch of albums, including Oscar the Grouch's "Let A Frown Be Your Umbrella", which included this brief classic.
Link to Oscar the Grouch, B Sandwich
Posted on Monday, January 12, 2026
Timmy Thomas, Why Can't We Live Together
No matter, no matter what color, you are still my brother. An admirable sentiment from 1972, and one we would do well to adopt today.
Link to Timmy Thomas, Why Can't We Live Together
Posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2025