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Monday Music: Sophie Milman – It Might As Well Be Spring

by JOHN ADAMS • 01.17.2011

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Friday Comment Forum: Worst Song Ever

by JOHN ADAMS • 01.14.2011

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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Canada Bans Dire Straits’ “Money For Nothing” for Being Too Offensive

by JOHN ADAMS • 01.14.2011

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…

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Monday Music: Artie Shaw, Begin The Beguine

by JOHN ADAMS • 01.10.2011

Shaw’s arrangement of Begin The Beguine — enjoy.

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Monday Tuesday Music: Bob Dylan, Thunder on the Mountain

by JOHN ADAMS • 01.04.2011

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Monday Music: My Sweet Potato

by JOHN ADAMS • 12.27.2010

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Woody Guthrie – Talking Dustbowl Blues

by JOHN ADAMS • 12.13.2010

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Monday Music: Who Killed Bambi?

by JOHN ADAMS • 11.22.2010

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

by JOHN ADAMS • 11.15.2010

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.