Morning Song - If I Had My Way I'd Tear The Building Down by The Rev. T. E. Weems "that old building of *sin*, that suffers the Christian faith" #gospelmasscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/13/m...
The Rev. T. E. Weems went into a recording studio in Atlanta, GA back in 1927 with nothing but his voice and a handful of his choir members. He came out with this spine-tingling a capella sermon-so…
Morning Song - Shoo, Shoo Baby by Mel Rhyne Enjoy. #HammondB3#jazz#FirstRuleOfCoverSongsmasscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/12/m...
Hammond B-3 organist Mel Rhyne backed up bluesmen like B. B. King and T-Bone Walker before making his name playing with Wes Montgomery in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Rhyne had a prolific late-i…
Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making Of Bruce Springsteen's #Nebraska@carynrose.bsky.socialmasscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/11/d...
Released in 1982, Nebraska remains strange, shocking, and nightmarish. It is simultaneously one of the least popular and most influential of the 21 studio albums Bruce Springsteen has released in h…
Morning Song - Early In The Morning by The Gap Band "...in the middle of the day, Late at night, mama, Everything's gonna be all right." #FunkyFridaymasscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/11/m...
You’ve got to respect the narrator’s priorities in The Gap Band’s 1982 crossover hit, “Early In The Morning”. Despite what you might guess from the title, this funky g…
Heck, Bruce Springsteen did 10 sold out concerts with the E Street Band at MSG in June/July of 2000. P. S. Is some reporter checking whether Trump has paid/will pay for renting out the arena?
Morning Song - Never Ever by All Saints “Conversations, hesitations in my mind, You got my conscience asking questions that I can’t find…” #AmazingGracemasscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/10/m...
There’s no issue of copyright infringement because “Amazing Grace” was first published in 1779, and any copyright John Newton, his heirs, and successors may have once had has long…
Morning Song - Love Her With A Feeling by Tampa Red "If you're gonna love a woman, love her with a thrill; 'Cuz if you don't, some other man will, You've got to...." #bluesmasscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/09/m...
Hudson Woodbridge, better known as Tampa Red, was the most prolific blues recording artist of the pre-World War II era. His slide guitar technique, played on his signature gold National steel-body …
Morning Song - Autumn Leaves by Paul Cole "...all red and gold, I'll see your lips, The summer kisses, The sunburned hands I used to hold." masscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/08/m...
It’s that time of year in these parts, when the leaves change, first painting the landscape in brilliant colors of fire before fading to brown, falling to earth, and leading us into winter as…
Morning Song - Opus 6, No. 1 (Andante Espressivo) by Fanny Mendelssohn masscommons.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/m...
(One in an occasional Monday series of Fanny Mendelssohn’s (Felix’ more talented—according to one of their teachers—older sister) Songs Without Words.) As the staff for the early shift in the Music…
Since 1984 when George Will attended a Bruce Springsteen concert & concluded Springsteen was a Ronald Reagan fan, all his columns have to be graded on a curve. I don't make the rules. #SoftBigotryOfLowExpectations