Category Archives: Music for a Sunday

Music for a Sunday: Happy Solstice!

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known…

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Music for a Sunday: Rain without end…

Yup, another weather song: “Please, ruinous rain, stop wetting my love this way…”

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Music for a Sunday: One for today’s weather

I’m not complaining about this rain. The garden needs it, and so do I.

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Music for a Sunday: When Irish eyes are smiling…

And no, this is not the familiar shamrocky tune that Ronnie Ray-gun and Lyin’ Brian Mulroney ruined at their “summit”, either. This one’s much prettier: And why are Irish eyes smiling today? Well, the other day, something remarkable happened on … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: Sounding Out

I’m gonna be in the garden for most of today, so please enjoy this little documentary about the late, great bluesman, B.B. King. This was shot in 1972, just as he was starting to finally make the big time. His … Continue reading

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More Music for a Sunday: Whatchoo lookin’ at?

This talented kid has a message for the street harassers who pester his mom: Lay off and let her stay free. And, given that mothers have died (some quite recently) as a result of street harassers not leaving them alone, … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: Mother, let me fight

I know I’ve posted this before, but Alí Primera’s great song about revolutionary mothers and the lessons they teach their children bears repeating. Especially in light of the fact that Mother’s Day didn’t start out as a commercialization of motherhood … Continue reading

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Music for a Sunday: In the arms of another young hood

This one’s going out to all the Freddie Grays of the world: …the chosen ones, the native sons.

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Music for a Sunday: Don’t call the doctor…

Yup, kiddies, your Auntie Bina is down with the mother of all head and chest colds. Don’t write me off yet, ‘kay?

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Music for a Sunday: Knee deep in the hoopla

“Marconi plays the Mamba, listen to the radio…don’t you remember?” Ah yes. Big ’80s sound, big ’80s shoulderpads, and of course, THAT HAIR. Who could forget? The best part, though, is when Abe Lincoln gets up to dance.

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