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Happy Friday after Thanksgiving, everyone. Hope you had a great holiday, and I hope you’re enjoying some time off. I’m kicking off the holiday season, as I do every year, by playing “Christmas in Prison” from John Prine’s 1973 album, Sweet Relief. It was Christmas in prison And the food was real good We had…
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Photo: Jennifer and I hanging out with Terrance Simien after a show, Sept. 2025. And it turns out, she still does. Thirty-two years ago, on the night before Thanksgiving, I met Jennifer, my wife-to-be, in a bar on Madison Street in Forest Park, Illinois. Appropriately enough, we met by the jukebox where my longtime friend…
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Bruce Springsteen sings “I’ll See You in My Dreams” in Dublin Most of the artists I listen to are a good 10 to 15 years older than I am. Joe Strummer, for example, was born in 1952, 10 years before I was, and had he not met an untimely end at age 50, he’d still…
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I woke up this morning to the news that reggae legend Jimmy Cliff passed away at age 81. What a tremendous loss for the music world in general. I posted this quick video on Instagram on my YouTube channel, so I thought I would share it here, too. I first came to reggae through the…
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In two minutes fifty-nine. Today’s installment of Black Coffee and Electric Guitars features a very un-Clash-like Clash song, “Hitsville U.K.,” from the 1980 triple album, Sandinista! The song’s lyrics epitomize the DIY spirit of early punk rock, but it has a very different sound, with organs and marimbas front and center. Nonetheless, it’s pretty straightforward…
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If you’ve looked at some of my recent posts, you might get the impression that this is a Bruce Springsteen fan page, but it’s not. Well, it kind of is, in that Bruce had a pretty big impact on me, I’ve seen him play live multiple times, and I play … let’s just say lots…
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As I mentioned yesterday, we finally got around to seeing Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the biopic that covers the period when Bruce recorded and released the solo, mostly acoustic Nebraska LP. For us old timers, that album holds a special place in our hearts. But, as I said, the movie is about more than…
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After a handful scheduling conflicts over the past few weekends, my wife and I finally saw the Bruce Springsteen biopic, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, on Saturday. Here’s the short version of my review: I liked it. Here’s the much longer version. First, I recognize that it hasn’t made much money at the box office…
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Neil Young, the world’s coolest Canadian, is 80 years young today, so I had to play a “deep cut,” as the kids say: “T-Bone” from the 1981 album, Reactor, which consists of these and only these lyrics: Got mashed potatoes Got mashed potatoes Got mashed potatoes Ain’t got no t-bone Ain’t got no t-bone ……
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