Tag: nature
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Our House
Well, it took me the entire trip but I’m finally using an 80’s song that is one of the first songs I think of when I think of 80’s – “Our House” by Madness! It’s a super fun ska hit from 1983, and I’ll bet you can already guess why I chose it as we…
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Sea of Love
I realize this may be a bit of a stretch when it comes to 80’s songs, but in 1984, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin teamed up with others as diverse as Jeff Beck and Paul Schaffer to create a cover band called The Honeydrippers. They put out a super fun EP called…
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Take Off!
It may not be a classic 80’s song, but I always loved that Bob and Doug McKenzie scored a novelty hit in the 80’s with “Take Off”. For those who don’t know or don’t remember, Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas of the Canadian version of Saturday Night Live (SCTV) created two beer guzzling canucks in…
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Goin’ Home
“Goin’ Home” was from a Willie album from 1971 called “Yesterday’s Wine”. Amazingly, Willie has put out 104 studio albums so far in his career, not counting the 14 live albums, 51 compilation albums and even a few soundtracks. It certainly gave me plenty of songs to choose from as we set out on this…
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Hands on the Wheel
“Hands on the Wheel” is the penultimate track (side note: I have an unreasonable love of the word ‘penultimate’) on the classic country concept album from 1975, “Red Headed Stranger”. It’s a beautiful song – kind of the tale of redemption that the Red Headed Stranger finds in his final years. This blog title was…
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Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground
Well, I still haven’t used “On the Road Again”, but I did go with one of Willie’s signature songs this time and a staple from pretty much all his live shows. “Angel” was from Willie’s 1980 movie, Honeysuckle Rose. Why did I choose this song, you ask? Well, I guess I’d respond by asking you…
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Driving the Herd
“Driving the Herd” was one of the last tracks on the final album Willie Nelson did with Merle Haggard, back in 2015. The album is called “Django and Jimmie”, due to a title track that was an homage to Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers. I went with “Driving the Herd” because out here at… oh…
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If Dogs Run Free
On the album “New Morning”, Bob Dylan put out a song that is strange by even his standards – it’s called “If Dogs Run Free”, and it’s kind of some odd 50’s sounding jazz piano tune with a lady doing scat in the background. If you haven’t heard it, why not check it out here?…
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Edge of the Ocean
For this post’s title, I went with one of the songs from Bob Dylan and the Band’s sessions back in the 60’s. Bob Dylan has written more words than there are. Over the last 15 or 20 years, there’s been a whole side business of finding stuff that Dylan recorded that wasn’t officially released and…
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Hot Fun in the Summertime/Warmth of the Sun
Okay… I know I said I’d use Dylan song titles for the blogs during this stretch, but with the loss of two amazing and tragic musicians the other week, I decided to go with a Sly and the Family Stone/Beach Boys mash up title for the new blog post. If you haven’t seen it, I…
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