Friday, January 2, 2015

Nat Stuckey's "Plastic Saddle": What's it about?

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It has been described as a "clever country ode to unprotected sex." Others have said that its "innuendo is truly perpl...
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Did Kurt Cobain and Rod McKuen write songs together?

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"I did some writing with Kurt Cobain," Rod McKuen says in the 2006 Dutch documentary Rod McKuen, A Man Alone . (He says it at 3:...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Gene Sullivan's "Please Pass the Biscuits" (1958)

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Wiley Walker and Gene Sullivan I saw that Acrobat Records in the UK recently released a four-disc box set called The Greatest Country ...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Ronnie Malone's "Lightning Bug" (1958)

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I got interested in Ronnie Malone while listening to the 1994 Buffalo Bop compilation Teenage Doll! , which is an anthology of rockabil...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Mel Tillis and ammonia Coke

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  In his 1984 autobiography Stutterin' Boy , Mel Tillis briefly reminisces about his days as a teenage soda jerk, when he served up ...
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

12 Thanksgiving songs: A holiday playlist

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Unlike Christmas and Halloween, Thanksgiving doesn't inspire much holiday music, and no attempts at writing a Thanksgiving standar...
Saturday, November 15, 2014

What are "auto-generated by YouTube" music videos?

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Update (March 22, 2016): When I wrote this blog post a year and a half ago, no information about YouTube's auto-generated videos ...
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