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Soul Serenade: Sam & Dave, “When Something Is Wrong With My Baby”
Isaac Hayes and David Porter wrote a string of hits for Sam & Dave in the '60s. Ken Shane recalls perhaps the greatest of them all
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Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 23
This week's look at AM Gold (1967) showcases the man, the myth, the mole -- Aaron Neville
Read More »Soul Serenade: The Wild Tchoupitoulas, “Meet de Boys on the Battlefront”
Caught up in the HBO series Treme, Ken Shane is in a New Orleans mood this week. He delivers up a Crescent City classic from the Wild Tchoupitoulas
Read More »Way Out Wednesday Mixtape Special: Do I Have to Spell It Out?
Way Out Wednesday returns for a spell with a mixtape of songs commemorating the Scripps National Spelling Bee!
Read More »CD Reviews: Aaron Neville, “I Know I’ve Been Changed” and Kermit Ruffins, “Happy Talk”
I never thought I’d be interested in listening to an Aaron Neville record. Yes, of course he’s done some stellar work with the Neville Brothers, but fellow children of the ’80s, I’m sure you
Read More »CHART ATTACK!: 12/2/89
Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the final CHART ATTACK! of 2009! In case you haven’t noticed, Popdose has been pretty much taken over by horrible, horrible holiday music, and I’m smack in the
Read More »CHART ATTACK!: 10/19/91
Mariah Carey shatters a 21-year record (and probably a few crystal glasses), Color Me Badd continues to suck, and Bryan Adams is told his album isn't Canadian enough. It's all part of Jason Hare's
Read More »Jesus of Cool: We Wuz Robbed! Great #2 Hits of the ’60s
Welcome to the second installment of an ongoing series celebrating songs that fell excruciatingly short of ascending to the top of Billboard’s pop singles chart. In the course of compiling and monitoring responses to
Read More »How Bad Can It Be?: “Oh Happy Day: An All-Star Music Celebration”
Rock ‘n’ roll and Gospel music have a long and contentious history, traditionally operating at odds to one another; and while it’s tempting to view that divide as entirely racial, that’s a needlessly reductive
Read More »Hooks ‘N’ You: The Devlins, “Drift”
Has this ever happened to you? You’ve bought a new album. You put it on and hit “play,” and as it’s playing, you find that you’re enjoying it well enough, but it’s not really
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