Category: On this date

National Chicken Wing Day – 7/29/21

Chicken Wing Day deals

NPR article on Maggot Brain: George Clinton turned 80

Good to see Eddie Hazel get well-deserved recognition.

National Ice Cream Day – July 18, 2021

Swamp Dogg

I never knew about Swamp Dogg in the 1970s. I first heard about him in one of the annual music issues of the Oxford American. His “Total Destruction to You Mind” was on the CD with the magazine and it was incredible.

His latest album is country music. John Prine was on the album. Swamp Dogg had recorded Prine’s “Sam Stone” many years ago.

See my separate posts on “Sam Stone” and “Total Destruction to You Mind”. I’ll post other songs here.

Here’s his web site: Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams (theswampdogg.com)

Sorry You Couldn’t Make It – Wikipedia

Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune – Wikipedia

Great Instagram post on Smiley Lewis

This is a fine post about Smiley Lewis by Dimestoreradio,

It’s a shame that Lewis’s records are best known in cover versions:

Blue Monday and I Hear You Knocking – Fats Domino

One Night (of Sin) – Elvis Presley (with more wholesome lyrics)

At least nobody else (that I know of) did anything with “Shame Shame Shame”.

James M. Cain

James M. Cain was born on July 1, 1892. He was born in Annapolis, MD and worked for the Baltimore Sun early in his career. He is best known for three novels that were also successful films – Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Mildred Pierce. These are tough crime novels that are well worth reading. The films are good, too.

Decoration Day – Drive-By Truckers

Decoration Day (2003) is one of my all-time favorite albums. I had never heard anything by the Drive-By Truckers before but I loved the album from the moment I began playing it. Later in 2003, I saw the DBT play at Fletcher’s, a small bar in Baltimore. It was a long, loud, sprawling, amazing show. It was even better than the album. I’ve seen them seven times but they were never better. They had three singer-songwriters who played guitar. They even played solos on songs that were written by one of the other guys. The songs were personal but also examined what the South is like today and the link to the past. The title song especially is about the past. It’s a tough world – there are two songs about suicide.

A recording of the show is available here.

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