I remember buying every one of Bonnie Raitt’s albums in the 1970s and wondering when the rest of the music-listening world would catch on to her brilliance. It took until 1989 when she put out “Nick of Time” for that to happen. I’ve kept buying her records, too. My iTunes Library says I have 21 …
iTunes has been bugging me for a few days to upgrade to its latest version for Windows, 11.1.4. I had a few minutes this afternoon so I clicked the button. Boy, did that cause a riot. I downloaded, clicked “run” and ran into lovely errors which told me the installation had failed and I’d have …
Bah. I got paid for my guitar, and one of the things I wanted to do with the cash was get the Compaq desktop diagnosed and repaired. I took it to a local place called ComputerGeeks, which boasts an $89 flat rate for diagnosis and inexpensive labor if parts are required. The tech opened it …
My friend Kuff dug into his iTunes library to find his Top Ten cover songs. He even went to the trouble of finding YouTube videos of them when possible. He does this kind of thing every Friday, and I’ve been taking up his challenge and leaving my lists in his comments each week. Here’s my …
Do It Again – Steely Dan You Told Me Baby – Bonnie Raitt Same Old Wine – Loggins & Messina Almost Home – Mary Chapin Carpenter Mamunia – Paul McCartney & Wings The Needle & The Damage Done – Neil Young Carefree Highway – Gordon Lightfoot Seven Year Ache – Rosanne Cash Bullet The Blue …
Texas blogger Kuff sorts through his iTunes library to find songs using the words One to Ten in their titles. Here’s my version: One — Three Dog Night Two Hot Girls (On A Hot Summer Night) — Carly Simon Three Time Loser — Bonnie Raitt 4 + 20 — Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Five …
Off to the vacuum cleaner/sewing machine repair place. Have a Random Ten from last night. Guitar Town–Emmylou Harris Martha My Dear–The Beatles Under The Falling Sky–Bonnie Raitt Boom, Like That–Mark Knopfler The Load-Out–Jackson Browne Operator–Jim Croce I Hope–Dixie Chicks Come See About Me–Diana Ross & The Supremes Kitty’s Back–Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band …
The Olympics motto is “Swifter, Higher, Stronger.” Here are songs from my iTunes library which have those words, synonyms, or root forms in their titles: Fast Company — The Eagles The Fast One — Linda Ronstadt Life In The Fast Lane — The Eagles Higher And Higher — The Moody Blues I Want To Take …
Big Girls Don’t Cry — Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Don’t Stop To Watch The Wheels — The Doobie Brothers Windy — The Association War Of Man — Neil Young (I Like New York In June) How About You? — Judy Garland & Mickey Rooney Steal Your Heart Away — Bonnie Raitt A Case …
If you haven’t heard Rosanne Cash’s Black Cadillac, start listening. It’s part elegy for her father, Johnny Cash, her stepmother, June Carter Cash, and her mother, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin. It’s also an audio chronicle of a daughter coping with their deaths. According to the singer, she began writing the songs in the spring of …