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Song of the Week: “Now She Says She’s Young” recorded in 1968 by Timon aka Tymon Dogg who Clash fans know for “Lose This Skin” on Sandinista! #tymondogg

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Song of the Week: “Running the World” by Jarvis Cocker. Live on French TV with the great Richard Hawley on guitar. 

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Song of the Week: love this version of  Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne” by the great interpreter Noel Harrison. 

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“Three Ravens” by Jerry Yester & Judy Henske, this from their 1969 album Farewell Aldebaran. This is my favorite Judy Henske vocal; she is known as a blues singer but this song is far from the blues -- it is based on an old English song about three ravens gazing upon a slain knight. #judyhenske

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Song of the Week: “As If Apart” by Chris Cohen. Love this jazz-ish song and Chris Cohen’s voice

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Mark Kramer sent me this beautiful Caetano Veloso song yesterday, written by Veloso in 1969 while he was in a jail cell in Rio, and yet inspired by the new images of earth as seen from space. This video was made by Veloso himself #caetanoveloso

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Song of the Week: “Albany” by Spinning Coin. Stephen Pastel shared this charming song by Glasgow’s Spinning Coin. I thought this one was about a love affair gone sour but apparently the lyrics are about the state of Scottish politics. 

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Song of the Week: “First Run” by Cian Nugent. I saw Cian Nugent with his trio live at the Echo Monday night. Robert Forster wrote that the trio is the purest form of rock and roll and on Monday night I had to agree.  #ciannugent

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Song of the Week “Get Down Tonight.” Have been thinking this week about Jerome Smith, guitarist with KC & the Sunshine Band. The other-worldly lead guitar that snakes through this song is a thing of beauty. They got this sound by slowing the tape down to half-speed, recording the electric guitar, then returning the tape to normal speed. Smith died in 2000 at age 47; he was working a bulldozer on a construction site, fell out of the cab and was run over.

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Song of the Week: “Drive” by Britta Phillips. I did not warm to this Cars’ song back in 1984 (am allergic to the Yamaha DX-7 keyboard) but Britta has done a beautiful version with help from Scott Hardkiss, Roger Brogan and Eric Broucek. Video by Deb Scherer for the Culture Crush #brittaphillips #culturecrush

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Beautiful video by the great Polish painter (and video artist) Wilhelm Sasnal set to “Touch Me” from Suicide’s Second album.

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beautiful sequence from the Hired Hand, with an essential soundtrack album from Bruce Langhorne aka Mr Tambourine Man

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Song of the Week: another beautifully arranged tune from Francoise Hardy: “Bowm Bowm Bowm.” This song is co-written by Tommy Brown and Mick Jones (yes that Mick Jones, later of Foreigner, but at this point in his life a session musician, arranger and songwriter, working in France with Johnny Hallyday and others). Richie Unterberger has written an excellent in-depth analysis of Francoise Hardy’s cover songs. 

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Song of the Week: “Tiny Goddess” by Francoise Hardy, this from her 1968 album En Anglais where she covers the Kinks, Everly Brothers, Phil Ochs and others, including this song originally by the UK band Nirvana.

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Song of the Week: “There Won’t Be Many Coming Home.” Quentin Tarantino’s Hateful Eight has many beautiful moments and one of them is hearing Roy Orbison sing over the closing credits. The Big O released this tremendous anti-war song in 1967; it was on the soundtrack album to what looks to be a pretty dreadful film -- The Fastest Guitar Alive -- which Roy also stars in. Roy looks odd without his dark glasses but of course cowboys cannot wear shades; that would be ahistorical. Speaking of ahistorical, twice now Tarantino has inserted a character with a strong Australian accent (his own character in Django) or New Zealand accent (6-horse Judy in Hateful 8) -- into films set in pre- and post-Civil War United States. Now maybe some people went back and forth from down under to the USA -- my own great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War before emigrating to New Zealand during the gold rush (in the early 1860s). But in 1870 there is no New Zealand accent -- the country was only colonized by the British in the 1840s; so the accent would simply be English. I loved the film anyway. Listen and cry #royorbison 

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Song of the Week: a great early version of “Fa Cé-La” by the Feelies. This single was recorded for Ork Records in 1977. But there was a delay of several months in the release and in those months the band decided their sound had changed (which it certainly had) and they didn’t want it to come out. Now available in the excellent Ork Records double-disc compilation from Numero Group.

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Song of the Week: “Lou Reed’s Hair.” There was a period or two where Lou sported a bad haircut and my friend Angel Corpus Christi (Lou’s biggest fan) wrote this song about it and Rich Stim made this cool video with a bobble-head doll. It’s worth watching all the way to the end.