Tonight, country legends Roy Rogers & Willie Nelson team up for a snappy little number called Rodeo Road.
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In tonight’s oddity en route to the Tips, plucked straight from the La Brea Tar Pits of music, Blue Mink sings their 1969 pro-miscegenation pop-anthem Melting Pot.
I guess they were just sick of diversity.
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You want us to release Morsi / Hey Obama, you are a stupid, bad man… ♫
Clearly, the entire world loves him.
h/t
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Life can be a crapshoot. Even if you have a high level of situational awareness, and you go out of your way to avoid bad parts of town after dark, you still might find yourself unexpectedly confronted at some point in your life by a thug or a “gangsta” wielding a knife or a gun. Tonight, an expert in hand-to-hand combat shows us a couple of basic but highly effective self-defense techniques that will have your attacker saying “uh-oh!”
h/t J. Minty
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In tonight’s Tips music Tennessee-born clawhammer banjo player Clarence Ashley plays and sings a distinctly Americanized version of an old English folk song called “The Cuckoo”: From 1929, here’s Coo-Coo Bird.
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At certain times, Robbie Fulks is Barely Human.
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In tonight’s tips music, recorded during a live performance in Japan in 1992, George Harrison is joined by Eric Clapton for an extended rendition of Harrison’s signature song While My Guitar Gently Weeps.
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In tonight’s diversion en route to the Tips we’re knocked all the way back into the late 1970s to watch California rockers Van Halen perform Jamie’s Cryin’.
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There are very few songs about smugness. Bob Dylan’s Disease of Conceit falls in the general ballpark, but his quiet, spiritual, almost dispassionate look at a widespread societal malaise is more philosophical than biting. Tonight’s Tips music selection, on the other hand, a pithy vignette written satirically in the first-person voice, is a full-on, gorpy wad of insufferable, imperious, in-your-face, elite-level self-absorption fired from a colossal smugness cannon: here’s Randy Newman singing My Life Is Good.
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In tonight’s Tips music selection, from Martin Scorcese’s 1978 documentary film The Last Waltz, the late Levon Helm, drummer for The Band, takes the mic for a performance of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.
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In England you need a licence for just about everything, but You Don’t Need A Licence For That.
That’s George Formby.
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Tonight we Spin Out with Elvis.
Don’t worry, we won’t hit a fire hydrant or a telephone pole.
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Hope you all have a Lovely Weekend.
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In 1834 Scottish songwriter Alicia Scott gave inspired melody to a poem written almost 150 years earlier by an infatuated Royal Scots soldier named William Douglas, and this lovely, memorable song has remained a standard through the centuries. From 1934, here’s Canadian singer Deanna Durbin’s recording of the timeless love song Annie Laurie. (Lyrics here.)
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Rubber sharks can’t beat Batman.
It’s an unwritten law.
h/t Kate
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Tonight we feature a little country music from husband-and-wife duo Doyle and Debbie, as Doyle steps up to the mic to clarify his predilections with the uptempo stomper I Ain’t No Homo (But Man You Sure Look Good to Me).
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In tonight’s Tips music we listen to a little country-style gospel, as Emmylou Harris sings If I Be Lifted Up.
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Last Friday songwriter, singer, and guitarist J.J. Cale passed away at the age of 74. Although never a big star, the quiet Oklahoman’s songwriting and laid-back, in-the-pocket guitar playing strongly influenced other musicians over the years including Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, and, of course, Eric Clapton, who exposed Cale’s songwriting to the broader public with his recordings of “After Midnight” and “Cocaine”.
Tonight we listen to Cale himself: first, a live 1971 performance of After Midnight, and then a studio version of Crazy Mama.
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Out in the west Texas town of El Paso.. ‪♪‬
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Earlier this week actor and former police officer, Dennis Farina, passed away. In celebration of him and his career we offer two clips from a short-lived TV series in the 1980’s called Crime Story.
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