Morst's Pick of the Week: Hello Dr. Bernice!

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The archive nut/king has been busy. With Cracker Duo on tour, we have more choices than usual for fresh picks. Personally, I attended and recorded the two Wisconsin shows (with a lot of assistance in Milwaukee from my friend Jason of Team Pickle. Which is to say that he actually did most of the
work.)

The Milwaukee [...]

Satisfaction Saturday: Joni!!!!

RIVER
(Joni Mitchell)
It’s coming on Christmas
They’re cutting down trees
They’re putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
But it don’t snow here
It stays pretty green
I’m going to make a lot of money
Then I’m going to quit this crazy scene
I wish I had a river
I could skate [...]

Paul Adams Listening Theme: PIANO PEOPLE

After a bit of fun last week with 70’s Disco here’s a more serious theme …
Listening Theme – The Piano Men (and Women!)

This is one of those themes that gets bigger the more you think about it – singer/songwiters that are primarily pianists. Elton John, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, [...]

bigDAVE's Video of the Week: Stayin' Alive

This week the songbook™ brings to you another rare treat. That’s right, we have Johnny Hickman and David Lowery aka The Cracker “acoustic” duo doing a cover of the bee gee’s “Stayin’ Alive” at JamminJava in Vienna VA 2-11-2010. This video is from the “The Sudospy” collection over @ youtube.com. this was a dare [...]

Drive Byes: DEATH OF ME: THE ONE AND ONLY ALBUM

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DEATH OF ME: THE ONE AND ONLY ALBUM

The cover. Jesus lies dead in Mother Mary’s arms just hours after the Crucifixion. It is one of Western Civilization’s greatest and most enduring symbols of suffering in a just cause, in this case human salvation. Alright, so it’s not going to be a feel-good party album. The [...]

PLAN AHEAD

Plan Ahead…February 25, 1964, The Beatles finished recording their next single ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, at Abbey Road studios, London

40 Forever: Dog Spelled Backwards

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Dog spelled backwards
Dahl, Roald, and Quentin Blake. The Vicar of
Nibbleswicke. London: Century, 1991.

The new vicar in town has a rare case of verbal dyslexia that makes him say words backwards without realizing it. Congregants don’t know what to think when he announces that they are not to “krap in [...]

Satisfaction Saturday: Rip This Joint

To me Exile start rights here when it goes “over the wall”— Chris

RIP THIS JOINT
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

Mama says yes, Papa says no,
Make up you mind ’cause I gotta go.
I’m gonna raise hell at the Union Hall,
Drive myself right over the wall.

Rip this joint, gonna save your soul,
Round and round and round we go.
Roll this joint, [...]

MEET THE DANGERS!

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Rocking songscripting from the Cracker
family

author: mungo
Chris LeRoy and Johnny Hickman were The Dangers way back before Johnny went on to play guitar in The Unforgiven and then co-form Cracker, with whom he still performs today. The Dangers didn’t release albums back then, but Dedication saw some of those old (and [...]

MORST Pick of the WEEK: Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother. .

The Cracker Duo of David and Johnny is out touring the US, and they’ve brought out a couple of new (to them) cover songs. David has occasionally been singing “A Very Good Year” ala Frank Sinatra. In response, Johnny brought out a nice slow cover of a little tune made popular by a group of [...]