Keeping Boomers In Touch With Today's Music
We connect a song from back-in-the-day to a current hit that has a similar sound/content/style. You’ll be up to speed in 90-seconds.
Curated by Dave Sholin | Written by Lee Wade
The Agony & the Angst of Being 16
Boomers, we're not in Kansas anymore, and here's 4+ minutes to prove it: "16," by a group called "Highly Suspect." It's dark and scary, leading to the unsettling and emotional moment when a man discovers that his girlfriend has been impregnated by someone else. It...
Boomers: Don’t be out of it. Get to know Lizzo
Fellow Boomers, you'll want to know about Lizzo--she's sizzling hot on the music scene; at 31-years old, she's been around (Texas, Minneapolis) and paid her dues. The result is a muti-talented, charming, smart rap/pop//R&B star with a large body and a larger than...
Let’s Hear It For The Songwriters
While it’s not true that “anyone can sing a song” it is true that crafting words and a melody out of thin air is akin to magic. In June, 2020, three songwriters and three others from the performing songwriter ranks will be inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame,...
Billie Eilish, Music’s “It Girl” of the Moment, Talks Climate Change
Fifty years ago, when Marvin Gaye addressed climate change in his "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" it was a tender and lyrical lament for our abused and beloved mother nature and our beautiful earth. Today, the issue is at the forefront, and 17-y/o singer/songwriter...
This is a V-E-R-Y “Country” Song
Country singer/songwriter Dustin Lynch knows small towns 'cause he grew up in Tullahoma, Tennessee, population just under 20,000. In 2017, his "Small Town Boy" went to the top of the Country chart, and now, two years later, he's back with "Ridin' Roads" a song...
The Doobie Bros Are Celebrating 50 Years of Bliss by Going on Tour
The Doobie Brothers are celebrating their 50th anniversary with a Las Vegas residency, beginning in Feb., and then going on tour in June. Of special interest to fans is that Michael McDonald, who hasn't toured with the group for almost 25 years, will be performing....
Carrying on the R&B Tradition
We boomers know Old School soul: Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett... Carrying on the tradition of that sound and style of music are the Teskey Brothers, a group from Melbourne, Australia, whose newly released single, the smooth and soulful "So...
What If…
Is there any one of us who hasn't, at some time, looked back and wondered "what if," as in "What If We Never Met," singer/songwriter John. k's soft ballad that questions his life's direction had he not met that special someone. If we never met I'd be drunk, waking up...
Tina Turner Turns 80
There's more to celebrate this week than just Thanksgiving--for example, Tina Turner turned 80 three-days ago, plus "Tina The Musical" recently opened on Broadway. (It's about her, not starring her.) Turner was big in the 60s and 70s, and then, in1984, she hit it out...