Last night, while the Rock Chick and I were watching the Australian Open, venerable soul-legend Al Green dropped a 4-song EP entitled Everybody Hurts. The four songs are all cover songs – and admittedly we’ve heard some version of two of them before – from The Bee Gees, R.E.M., Lou Reed solo, and Lou Reed with the…
*Crappy picture of live LPs from Townshend, Hendrix, Elton, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Faces/Rod, and the Blues Brothers by your intrepid blogger who moonlights as a very bad photographer While my listening of late has been very 1985-centric what with both Dire Straits (Brothers In Arms) and INXS (Listen Like Thieves) releasing deluxe editions of…
As long time readers know, (obviously) we love rock n roll at B&V. And I have always tried to keep it positive around here when talking about the music we love. Heaven knows, there’s enough negative energy out there to sink us all. And at the heart of it, I’m a lover, not a fighter……
Despite having a hectic week this week, I found my mind wandering to, what else, rock n roll. For reasons only clear to a neurologist, which I don’t have, I started thinking about all the great double studio albums put out over the years. I’ve done a post on what I think the best old…
“Oh it’s such a perfect day, I’m glad I spend it with you…” – Lou Reed, “Perfect Day” This week, while I was still grooving on the Talking Heads’ live album, Stop Making Sense, I discovered legendary R&B/Soul singer Al Green had released a new cover version of Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day.” Al Green, nay,…