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Screenings: Freedom Riders (2010)

August 3rd, 2017 · No Comments

9.5
[DVD, library]

Perhaps living in Birmingham, Alabama, this resonated more with me than if I had not moved here. But the telling of this historical chapter is thorough and follows a riveting story arc. Great period footage and contemporary recollections. Highly recommended, lest we forget.

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101 Days of Listening: Day 59

July 27th, 2017 · No Comments

  • The Soundtrack of Our Lives “Keep the Line Movin'”
  • The Beatles “Hey Bulldog”
  • Cheap Trick “Come On Come On (live)”
  • David Crosby “I’d Swear There Was Somebody Here”
  • Traffic “House for Everyone”
  • Bon Iver “Perth”
  • Jack Johnson “Never Know”
  • Bruce Springsteen “For You”
  • The Beatles “Free as a Bird”
  • Elvis Costello “Baby Plays Around”
  • Sun Kil Moon “Sam Wong Hotel”
  • Death Cab for Cutie “You Are a Tourist”
  • The Band “Key to the Highway”
  • Bee Gees “Sir Geoffrey Saved the World”
  • Macy Gray “Life”
  • My Chemical Romance “Desolation Row”
  • Bonnie Raitt “About to Make Me Leave Home”
  • Bobby Womack “Don’t Let Me Down”
  • The Lightning Seeds “You Showed Me (Wiseguys instrumental)”
  • The Clash “(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais”
  • The Shame Idols “Eudora”
  • Natalie Merchant “Diver Boy”
  • James Taylor “Shower the People”
  • Joan Armatrading “Love by You”
  • Elvis Costello “King of Thieves (demo)”
  • Blood, Sweat & Tears “Spinning Wheel”
  • Bee Gees “I Can’t Let You Go”
  • Nick Lowe “High on a Hilltop”
  • Cat Stevens “Killin’ Time”
  • Elvis Costello “The Birds Will Still Be Singing”

    #randomsongmachine
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    101 Days of Listening: Day 60

    July 24th, 2017 · No Comments

    • Donald Fagen “The Great Pagoda of Funn”
    • The Replacements “Attitude”
    • The Byrds “Universal Mind Decoder (instrumental)” 
    • Vulture Whale “That’s Cold”
    • Pink Floyd “Dogs”
    • Neil Young “Down By the River”
    • Sigur Ros “Untitled 6”
    • Peter, Bjorn & John “All Those Expectations [Weak remix]”
    • Hearts and Flowers ” Rock and Roll Gypsies”
    • Pretenders “My Baby”
    • Iron & Wine “New Mexico’s No Breeze”
    • Ron Sexsmith “Sun’s Coming Out”
    • Petula Clark “Downtown”

      #randomsongmachine
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      101 Days of Listening: Day 61

      July 23rd, 2017 · No Comments

      • Nadine “Twilight”
      • The Bryan Ferry Orchestra “I Thought”
      • Teddy Thompson “Jonathan’s Book”
      • Simon & Garfunkel “April Come She Will”
      • Bruce Hornsby “Swan Song”
      • John Lennon “Isolation”
      • The Impressions “Woman’s Got Soul”
      • Boz Scaggs “Time”
      • The Monkees “The Girl I Knew Somewhere”
      • The Soundtrack of Our Lives “Still Aging”
      • Paul Simon “All Because of You”
      • Elvis Costello “God Give Me Strength (live)”
      • The Moody Blues “After You Came”
      • Bon Iver “Calgary”
      • Bob Dylan “To Ramona”
      • Michelle Shocked “Blackberry Blossom (live)”
      • Talking Heads “People Like Us”
      • January “I Heard Myself in You (Part 2)”
      • Western Keys “Gettin’ Sick”
      • Elvis Costello “My Thief”
      • Eagles “No More Walks in the Wood”
      • Talking Heads “Stay Hungry (live)”
      • Macy Gray “Redemption Song”
      • The Shame Idols “Superman”

      #randomsongmachine
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      101 Days of Listening: Day 62

      July 22nd, 2017 · No Comments

      • Zero 7 “Distractions”
      • Laura Veirs “July Flame”
      • Paul McCartney “Let It Be (live in New York City)”
      • Nick Lowe “Freezing”
      • Josh Ritter “One More Mouth (live in Dublin)” 
      • Wilco “She’s a Jar”
      • Ed Harcourt “Strangers”
      • Journey “Girl Can’t Help It”
      • The O’Jays “Livin’ for the Weekend”
      • Elvis Costello “Sad About Girls”
      • Elvis Costello “The Great Unknown”
      • Ron Sexsmith “Every Time I Follow”
      • Robyn Hitchcock “The Wind Cries Mary (live, Storefront)”
      • David Garza “In Eclipse”
      • Ry Cooder “Go Home Girl”
      • Lindsey Buckingham “End of Time”
      • Ric Menck “The Bicycle Song”
      • Josh Rouse “Pilgrim”
      • Loggins & Messina “Till the Ends Meet”
      • Patty Griffin “Death’s Got a Warrant”
      • Carpenters “Let Me Be the One”
      • Paul Weller “Now the Night Is Here”
      • Dionne Warwick “Alfie”
      • Sheryl Crow “Oh Marie”
      • Cat Stevens “Changes IV (demo)”
      • Elvis Costello “Turpentine”
      • Don Henley “Bramble Rose”
      • The Smithereens “Especially for You”
      • Elvis Costello “This Sad Burlesque”

      #randomsongmachine
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      101 Days of Listening: Day 63

      July 16th, 2017 · No Comments

      • Mayer Hawthorne “Love Like That”
      • Paul Simon “Loves Me Like a Rock”
      • Sugarloaf “Green-Eyed Lady”
      • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young “Southern Man (live, 4 Way Street)”*
      • Rufus Wainwright “Leaving for Paris No. 2”
      • The Beatles “Birthday”
      • The Beatles “I Will”
      • Boz Scaggs “We’re All Alone”

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        * Neil Young at the start of the song, to the crowd: “This is a really long song, folks, and we’re gonna play it real slow tonight.” 

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        101 Days of Listening: Day 64

        July 15th, 2017 · No Comments

        • Fleetwood Mac “Peacekeeper”
        • Seal “Amazing”
        • Nick Lowe “Withered on the Vine”
        • Rod Stewart “That’s All Right / Amazing Grace”
        • Jonathan King “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon”
        • Mason Jennings “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”
        • Iron & Wine “The Trapeze Swinger”
        • Tom Waits “(Looking for) the Heart of Saturday Night”
        • Yes “Hold On”
        • The Hollies “Pay You Back with Interest”
        • Fleetwood Mac “Storms”
        • Bruce Hornsby “Preacher in the Ring, Part 1”
        • Cat Stevens “Bitterblue”
        • Elton John “Too Low for Zero”
        • The Beatles “Love Me Do (live at the BBC)” 
        • Diana Ross & the Supremes “Standing at the Crossroads of Love”
        • Jack Johnson with Jackson Browne “Take It Easy (live)”
        • World Party “All Come True”
        • Wilco “King of You”
        • Neil Young “Boxcar”
        • Dionne Warwick “I Say a Little Prayer”
        • Ed Harcourt “Intro”
        • R.E.M. “Seven Chinese Brothers”
        • Peter Gabriel “Sledgehammer”
        • Ry Cooder “Little Sister”

          #randomsongmachine
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          101 Days of Listening: Day 65

          July 14th, 2017 · No Comments

          • Bruce Springsteen “The Rising”
          • Burt Bacharach “Stripping Really Isn’t Sexy, Is It?”
          • Flamin’ Groovies “I’m Drowning”
          • Paul McCartney “My Love (live in New York City)” 
          • Bruce Hornsby “Barcelona Mona”
          • Jackson Browne “Lawless Avenues”
          • The Beatles “From Me to You (live at the BBC)”
          • Cat Stevens “Sun / C79”
          • Mark Knopfler “Junkie Doll”
          • Ryan Adams “Come Home”
          • Robyn Hitchcock “I Feel Beautiful”
          • Gene McDaniels “Tower of Strength”
          • 10,000 Maniacs “City of Angels”
          • Cream “Badge”
          • Warren Zevon “The French Inhaler”
          • The New Basement Tapes “Lost on the River #12”
          • Death Cab for Cutie “Your Heart Is an Empty Room”
          • Carpenters “This Masquerade”

              #randomsongmachine
              #musictrumpshate

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              101 Days of Listening: Day 66

              July 13th, 2017 · No Comments

              • Drive-By Truckers “Gravity’s Gone”
              • Bruce Hornsby “Resting Place”
              • The Beatles “Just a Rumours”
              • Randy Newman “Baltimore”
              • Mark Knopfler “Dream of the Drowned Submariner”
              • Oasis “Magic Pie”
              • The Rolling Stones”Flight 505″
              • Dionne Warwick “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?” 
              • Todd Rundgren “It Wouldn’t Have Made Any Difference (lounge version)” 
              • Bee Gees “Bodyguard”
              • The Avett Brothers “It Goes On and On”
              • Professor Longhair “Tipitina”
              • Josh Rouse “Flight Attendant”
              • George Harrison “All Those Years Ago (live in Japan)” 
              • Fleetwood Mac “I Know I’m Not Wrong”

                #randomsongmachine
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                101 Days of Listening: Day 67

                July 11th, 2017 · No Comments

                • k.d. lang “Suddenly”
                • Drive-By Truckers “The Purgatory Line”
                • David Byrne “Tic Toc 2 (In the Future)” 
                • Diana Ross & the Supremes “Back in My Arms Again”
                • David Byrne with Candie Payne & St. Vincent “Every Drop of Rain”
                • The Chantels “Look in My Eyes”
                • Paul McCartney & Wings “With a Little Luck”
                • Wilco “I’m Always in Love”
                • Son Volt “Wild Side”
                • Paul Simon “Congratulations”
                • Seal “Loneliest Star”
                • ABBA “He Is Your Brother”
                • Todd Rundgren “Bang the Drum All Day”
                • John Hiatt “Drive South”
                • Nirvana “Drain You”
                • Ed Harcourt “The Trapdoor”

                  #randomsongmachine
                  #musictrumpshate

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