TNN Weekly Weekend Reward
In his “Middle Seat Terminal” airline industry travel column this week in The Wall Street Journal, Scott McCartney turned the spotlight on a disgruntled United passenger who discovered that revenge is...
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This weekend’s Reward is Patty Griffin’s “Heavenly Day.” It’s from her superb Grammy-nominated 2007 album Children Running Through.
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Posting “How High the Moon” last Thursday’s moon watch reminded me of some of Les Paul and Mary Ford’s many other hits of the early ’50s. This is the music of my adolescence (as opposed to my...
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Monday will be Tony Bennett’s 83rd birthday; he is a National Treasure, and in a better world it would be a national —indeed, an international— holiday. Three years ago, he was wished a happy 80th...
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Here’s a Reward for an early August weekend: the Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City.” Released in June, it sat at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks in August 1966. Written by...
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Willy DeVille, the founder and mainstay of Mink Deville, died last week of pancreatic cancer. He was 58. He was one of the most interesting and inventive pop artists of the last several decades....
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This weekend’s Reward is the Detroit Cobras. In my humble, but well-nigh infallible, opinion (and, since it’s true, it ain’t bragging; truth to tell, it’s a real burden; but I digress), the Detroit...
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This week’s Reward is melancholy but glorious —because it celebrates some of the songs of Ellie Greenwich who died on Wednesday. HANKY PANKY This was a Number One hit in 1963 for Tommy James and the...
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This weekend’s end of summer Reward comes courtesy of NPR’s excellent summer-long series in which various listeners and assorted celebrities fondly recalled their favorite Summer Song Favorites. For...
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Earlier this year a Reward featured Mali’s Amadou & Mariam. This week it’s Senegal’s Baaba Maal. He mostly works in his own Pulaar language, but his new song —”Television”— is in French....
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This weekend’s Reward is two Charlie Poole songs — “White House Blues” and “He Rambled”— one by the master, and one by a devotee who has mastered the oeuvre and even successfully supplemented it. The...
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Bluegrass pioneer and legend Bill Monroe frequently serenaded his home state. In 1948, inspired by hearing Monroe’s “Kentucky Waltz” on the radio one night, Pee Wee King, the leader of the Golden West...
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This week’s Reward is a remarkable video of the most recent winner of the Ukraine’s Got Talent TV show. Who knew? I don’t mean who knew that Ukraine’s got talent. (That question can be answered with...
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My Old Man: Rosanne and Johnny Cash photographed by Annie Liebovitz. The genesis of Rosanne Cash’s superb new CD —The List— was in a conversation she had thirty-six years ago with her father, Johnny...
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Mercedes Sosa died on 4 October at the age of 74. Her life was adventurous and eventful. Her career spanned several decades and included more than forty recorded albums. Her personality and voice...
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A recent Soundtrack Of Our Lives featured “Take It Easy” — the Eagles’ first big hit, written by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey. This week’s Reward offers two covers of Eagles songs — “Take It to the...
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“My Baby Just Cares for Me” was written by composer Walter Donaldson (“My Blue Heaven,” “Carolina in the Morning,” “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby”) and lyricist Gus Kahn (“Ill See You in My Dreams,” “It Had...
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Last weekend’s Reward was Nina Simone’s signature song:”My Baby Just Cares For Me.” This weekend it’s her 1965 cover of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ 1956 song “I Put a Spell On You.” One of the song’s...
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In May 1979 Linda Ronstadt and Phoebe Snow were the musical guests on Saturday Night Live. Here’s their cover of Betty Everett’s 1964 Number One hit recording of Rudy Clark’s “The Shoop Shoop Song...
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