From Tony Bennett’s album of blues duets. Update: I’ve received some uncommonly kind questions about whether posting a song about heartache is meant to convey a personal message. No, not at all. I’ve posted allegories here and there, but this song is, to me, simply a good song. Hope you like it, too – Adams
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Monday Music: Django Reinhardt’s Version of Dark Eyes
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Music Monday: Crimson Skies, Arixo Sunset
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Monday Music: Mumford and Sons, Roll Away Your Stone
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Monday Music: Ben Sommer’s Saint Martha
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Monday Music: Singin’ The Blues featuring Bix Beiderbecke
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Monday Music: John Legend’s Our Generation
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Monday Music — John Coltrane: On Green Dolphin Street
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Monday Music: Sophie Milman’s So Long, You Fool
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I hope you’re having a Happy Valentine’s Day, as I am. But if not, it’s worth considering whether the person over whom you might be pining is, after all, worth pining over. Think carefully, and you may find that the answer’s no, not at all. In that spirit of realism (and liberation from someone you’re…
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Ben Sommer’s america’d
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I grew up in a jazz-loving household, not jazz as stuffy, artistic presumption, but simply the music of the house. One knew that there were kinds of jazz, and each had its place (the exception was fusion, that everyone agreed had none at all). Glenn Miller, for example, was considered sufficiently tame that his albums…
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Monday Music: Sophie Milman – It Might As Well Be Spring
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Friday Comment Forum: Worst Song Ever
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Canada Bans Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing” for Being Too Offensive
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I’m sure the song is offensive to many — but that’s no reason to ban it. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1980s hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio. The ruling, released Wednesday, was in response to a complaint against St. John’s radio station CHOZ-FM. The listener…