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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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Friday Comment Forum: Worst Song Ever

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Here’s the Friday open comments post. Today’s suggested topic — The Canadians have banned a Dire Straits song. If you were going to ban a song — although I think banning’s a bad idea — what would you ban? Less intrusively, what song would you switch off the moment you heard it? My pick —…

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Monday Music: Who Killed Bambi?

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I’ve posted this song before, for hunting season. I think I’ll make it a tradition — from the 70s, here’s Who Killed Bambi? Enjoy. Link to Video on YouTube, uploaded by a connoisseur of fine music and film. Lyrics: Gentle pretty thing Who only had one spring You bravely faced the world Ready for anything…

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Monday Music: We Sure Got Hard Times, Barbecue Bob

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Here’s Georgia blues legend Barbecue Bob (Robert Hicks)’s We Sure Got Hard Times. Like blues songs traditionally, it’s written not to depress, but to uplift, listeners through an honest account of troubles (so as to put them in perspective and drive away sadness). The song is from 1930.