• An appreciation of “Fairytale of New York” from Michael Brendan Dougherty.
• The backstory from Wikipedia.
• An alternate version from Christy Moore.
So happy Christmas. I love ye, baby. …
Category: Music that doesn’t suck
WWFP (What Would Frank Play)? Part III
As the Pestilence-Elect uses the economy as a sex toy, I expect FZ might perform the entire album “We’re Only In It For the Money.”
WWFP (What Would Frank Play), Part II
What would Frank Zappa play as Agent Orange assembles his Cabinet of tools, fools and ghouls? Why, “I’m the Slime,” of course.
WWFP (What Would Frank Play)?
WWFP at The Inauguration? I’m gonna go with “Dumb All Over.”
Leon Russell, R.I.P.
We interrupt our discussion of the decline and fall in order to tip the Mad Dog top hat to Leon Russell, who like Leonard Cohen has gone west.
I heard him first as half of Asylum Choir, with guitarist Marc Benno. Then there was the Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour with Joe Cocker, the Concert for Bangladesh with George Harrison, et al. Saw him perform once at Folsom Field in Boulder, and wow, what a show. Dude never really stopped playing — he would chat to the audience between songs, tinkling the ivories.
Here’s one of his most popular tunes, and one of my personal favorites. Damn, that Next World Orchestra just keeps getting bigger and better.
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