Everybody knows Ray Charles’s version of this song. Here’s Becky Kilgore’s and Dave Frishberg’s cover, from their “Not a Care in the World” album. I think I first heard these two together on Fresh Air about fifteen years ago, and it was a revelation to hear her sing and hear Frishberg (who wrote “I’m Just …
So the house is being renovated and Donald had to leave for a couple of weeks, huh? Maybe he’ll decide he’d rather not go back to DC and work. Stranger things have happened, although not with the Presidency. My dad had a 31-year Navy career. Two weeks after he retired from the Navy he went …
There’s a scene in Eric Flint’s “1632” in which a collection of Spanish Army soldiers is holed up in a castle, besieged by a regiment or so of combined 21st-century American and 17th-century German soldiers. As an act of psychological warfare, the American general starts playing music (yes, this is reminiscent of the tactics the …
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that two white Senators from the Deep South would author legislation meant to keep non-English speakers out of the country. As usual, Trump makes claims which aren’t substantiated. Trump said the measure “will reduce poverty, increase wages and save taxpayers billions and billions of dollars.” I suppose he means …
Up until today I had never purchased a single record/CD by Van Morrison. The man’s been performing since 1964, and heaven knows I knew “Gloria” by his band Them, released sometime between ’64 and ’68. But I never got around to buying “Astral Weeks” or “Moondance” or any of his other albums. I knew some …