email Don’t ask me why I came up with this song for today, but here it is. Perhaps it was the visit with my 82 year old mother last night in New Jersey. She and my father played the “Funny Girl” Soundtrack, where this song is from, non-stop while I was growing up. Maybe it […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Ruin” by Cat Power
email I don’t know what it is about Charlyn Marie Marshall, the artist we now know as Cat Power. Every music rag I pick up amply pours the accolades on like maple syrup and, of course, I feel the need to eat it up. As a result, I’ve purchased several of her records and find […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Comfortable (Flyin’ Scotsman) by Ian Hunter & The Rant Band
email Bob Dylan isn’t the only artist supposedly having a late career renaissance. Over the last several years, septuagenarian, Ian Hunter, has put out a succession of terrific records packed with full-on Mott rockers complete with the Dylanesque wordplay he’s come to be known for. Now, let me digress a minute because it seems that […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Andy’s Chest” by Lou Reed
email “Swoop, swoop, oh baby rock, rock…” Only early ‘70s radio would play a song with blatant references to giving head and not have a problem with the lyrical content. Such was the atmosphere that welcomed Lou Reed’s second solo record after leaving the Velvet Underground and his biggest hit “Walk On The Wild Side.” […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Baby Get Worse” by Divine Fits
email When I first started playing Divine Fits’ debut album, “A Thing Called Divine Fits,” I immediately gravitated to the songs that featured Britt Daniels on lead vocals. Daniels formed the band with Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade and Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks while on hiatus from his band Spoon. In fact, it […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “The Plank” by The Devil Makes Three
email Originally posted September 2012. I enjoy going to music festivals even at my advanced age (for festivals) of 51 years old. Sure there’s lots of crap you’ve got to put up with…audience surges…crowd surfers…extreme weather…lethal body odor…but discovering music you would have never heard otherwise far outweighs the aforementioned disadvantages of putting yourself out […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Pay Me My Money Down” by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
email Originally posted September 2012 Not the Seeger Sessions Band, who Bruce fronted for his recording and subsequent tour, but a more recent version backed by The E Street Band from the “Wrecking Ball” tour. One of the many highlights of last night’s show shined a bright light on The E Street Band’s expanded horn […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Working On The Highway” by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
email Originally posted September 2012. I just returned from my first E Street Band show in well over 15 years and the first Bruce Springsteen show in six. The last time I saw Springsteen was with the Seeger Sessions Band in 2006, and it was one of the best Bruce concerts I’ve ever seen. With […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Reggaejunkiejew” by Ween
email MORE WEEN! This is the 2003 “All Request Live” version of a song originally released on the 1994 “Pure Guava” record by Ween. Before anyone gets too excited, I’m a Jew and so is Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween), so don’t get it in your head that this track is slamming Jews, Rastas or […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Haunts Of Ancient Peace” by Van Morrison
email Here we have one of Van Morrison’s most soulful pieces of music, originally from one of his most underrated albums. “Common One” was released in 1980 and features six deeply moving extended jazz meditations that hawked back to Morrison’s classic “Astral Weeks” album in sound and texture. However, unlike “Astral Weeks,” this record’s release […]
