Tune of the Day

"One Hit Wonders Of The World Unite" by Badger. A "chimey" solo electric guitar opening is then joined with a guitar blasting a power chord, pounding drums, and a throbbing electric bass part. The opening leads to the first verse, a wonderful melody winding it’s way through an unusually good chord progression. A second verse follows, after which the song goes to a bridge (almost unheard these days in Pop and Rock music, but common in The Beatles’ songs), and then.....the bridge explodes into a glorious, thrilling chorus, complete with hair raising 3-part harmony!

If you love Power Pop by the likes of Big Star, Cheap Trick, Marshall Crenshaw, Emitt Rhodes, Matthew Sweet, Dwight Twilley, The Flamin' Groovies, The Rasberries, The Rubinoos, Shoes, etc., you have GOT to hear this song! Hard to find (I have it on a compilation given to performers at the 1997 Poptopia Festival in Los Angeles (I was a member of Emitt Rhodes’ band), but you can hear it on YouTube.

"I Wouldn’t Be Me Without You" by Rodney Crowell, just one great song off his excellent Tarpaper Sky album. The song (written by Rodney), his singing of it, the musical accompaniment by some of the best musicians in the world (Steuart Smith on guitar, Will Kimbrough on acoustic guitar and accordion, Eddie Bayers on drums, Jerry Douglas on dobro, Jim Horn on sax), the great harmony singing by Shannon McNally, Chely Wright, Vince Gill, and Ronnie McCoury.

Fellers, it just don’t get no better’n this. Mastered specifically for vinyl LP by New West Records, the current best music label in the world.