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10 years ago, I performed in a backing band for a juggling heavy circus act. They gave us a list of covers to do. I had to veto half of it to get it down to 2 dead tunes. The hippies around here have not tired of this music even slightly.
 
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I am absolutely obsessed with "what could have been" with this song:
Judas Priest: please release all of it -- or I will feel compelled to do a cover! It would be a great showcase for my Rockman-inspired pedal. I'm LAZY, please spare me from having to do it!
 
When I was in high school my dad burned me a CD with a bunch of War songs on it. This was my favorite from that CD for some reason and it gets in my head pretty regularly.

When I was in college I used to go to a local bar on Monday nights because they had live jazz. I went often enough that I got to know the three piece (keys, bass, drums) pretty well and would dit at their table most of the time.

One night a guy walks up and talks to the keys player and he points over to his table where me and a good friend mine are sitting. He comes over and introduced himself as Lonnie. My friend's name was also Lonnie which is a pretty uncommon name here, so I was there with two Lonnie's.

Anyways, it turned out to be Lonnie Jordan from War. He was a super cool guy and we hung for a few hours at the band table. He got up and played a bit when the band took a break and was just an amazing player. Pretty cool experience and a great memory.

 
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Probably the most beautiful song protesting capital punishment. The live version from My Flame Burns Blue is really fantastic but I just love the album version.

Elvis Costello has at least two songs specifically criticizing capital punishment, the other being Let Him Dangle from Spike, which is a bit more on the nose than Favorite Hour. There's just something about Costello's voice accompanied by solo piano that really hits me.

Now there's a tragic waste of brutal youth
Strip and polish this unvarnished truth
The tricky door that gapes beneath the ragged noose
The crippled verdict begs again for the lamest excuse

 
Every once in a while I come back to this song I found in a Khruangbin Spotify mixtape. The other day I spent a good chunk of time with a friend trying to figure out how the hell they are counting the middle section starting at 1:40. It's not random but it's not your standard 4 bars of this and 4 bars of that. I also love the grunts at the end.


And here's Khruangbin's watered down, very white clone of it. Groovy but it lacks the craziness of the original.

 
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