Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Silver Train” by The Rolling Stones Today’s Song Of the Day by Eric Berman hails from one of the most maligned albums in the entire Rolling Stones’ catalog, Goats Head Soup, and I’ve never really understood why. Certainly, its proximity as the follow up to the mighty […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Buckets Of Rain” by Bette Midler with Bob Dylan
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Buckets Of Rain” by Bette Midler with Bob Dylan Today’s Song Of The Day by Eric Berman is a great Bette Midler/Bob Dylan duet from Midler’s 1976 album Songs For The New Depression. The session came about because Dylan had hoped Midler would join him on the […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Answering Machine” by The Replacements
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Answering Machine” by The Replacements When they were good, they were really great. But when The Replacements were bad, they were truly awful. Seeing The Replacements in concert was always a crap shoot. Whether it was boredom from being on the road, or just youthful blowing off […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “‘Til I Die” by The Beach Boys
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “‘Til I Die” by The Beach Boys Today’s Song Of The Day is one one of Brian Wilson’s deepest creations from the 1971 album originally titled Landlocked but ultimately released as Surf’s Up. The lyrics really show where Brian’s head was at the time which was not […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Bad Time” by Grand Funk Railroad
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Bad Time” by Grand Funk Railroad This is not exactly the “Footstompin’ Music” that Grand Funk Railroad were known for in the late ’60s and early ’70s. But once they lost the Railroad in their name and came under the aegis of Todd Rundgren and Jimmy Ienner, […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Rednecks” by Randy Newman
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Rednecks” by Randy Newman Here is what Randy Newman had to say about the lead song from his 1974 masterpiece Good Old Boys: “I wrote ‘Rednecks’ soon after I saw Lester Maddox (Georgia Governor from 1967-1971) on The Dick Cavett Show. They sat Maddox next to Jim […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Little Latin Lupe Lu” by The Righteous Brothers
Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield were best known for their smooth blue-eyed soulful sounds as The Righteous Brothers performing heartfelt ballads. But they could rock out too as evidenced by this Bill Medley original that was not only a hit for them (#47/1963) but also The Kingsmen (#49/1964) and Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels (#17/1966). […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Row Jimmy” by Grateful Dead
While most Deadheads would agree that 1972 was a key year for the band due to the amount of then-new material added to the mix now considered standards, as evidenced on last year’s essential “Complete Europe ’72” mammoth box set release. I too agree, but I really love the 1973-74 shows and the tracks from […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “No Time To Think” by Bob Dylan
“Street Legal” is one of the most underrated records in Bob Dylan’s canon. When it came out in 1978, it had the tough task of following both “Desire” and “Blood On The Tracks,” two of Dylan’s most respected studio albums and comparatively speaking, it did not fare so well. It was then followed by the […]
Song Of The Day by Eric Berman – “Mean Man” by Detroit Cobras
You can draw a sonic line between The Bangles and Detroit Cobras when it comes to influences. Both groups draw upon the classic girl group sound of the 1960s, but add their own garage rock spin to the proceedings. Detroit Cobras are a garage rock band from, you guessed it, Detroit whose first few albums […]
