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
Location, Location, Location.
There’s always a place at the Country music table for men crying in their beer after losing a good woman--it’s just a question of modernization and packaging. And just like real estate, a lot has to do with location, location, location. For George Strait it was that...
Ariana Grande: 24-year Old SuperStar
When 24-year old super-star Ariana Grande opened the Billboard Music Awards two weeks age with her hit "No Tears Left To Cry,” she bowled us over with her vocal range and soulful sensitivity that brought the song’s lyrics to life. Naturally, our thoughts turned to a...
Dear Stevie Nicks, We’re Sorry We Missed Your Birthday.
In the midst of the Memorial Day BBQs, beaches, and hitting the road, we completely overlooked the legendary singer/songwriter AND Boomer Stevie Nicks' 70th birthday, which was last Sat. (May 26th). Men have had their fantasies about her, and many women have,...
Can You Hear Bruce Springsteen’s Influence Lurking In The Background of This “Alternative” Hit?
Mt. Joy plays to an Alternative and Adult Alternative fan base, so it’s OK if you’ve never heard of them, however, they are prepping for the mainstream, i.e. announcing their first ever festival sets at the legendary Bonnaroo and Newport Folk Festivals, which is the...
Whitney Houston Sings “The Star-Spangled Banner”
For Memorial Day: One of the finest renditions of "The Star-Spangled Banner," sung by Whitney Houston for Super Bowl XXV, 1991, in Tampa, FL.
Memorial Day: Brew, BBQ, & Do The Right Thing
Ironic, isn’t it, that the same “Memorial Day Weekend!” that kicks off Summer Surf & Sun! is also a solemn, sad remembrance (not a "holiday") that’s personal to families and friends who lost loved ones in an American war—any war, and that’s also public, because...
Peace, Love, & Understanding Redux (Thank You Jason Mraz)
It’s hard to believe that Boomers considered “peace, love and understanding” a viable worldview vs. today, where the choices are far more bellicose. Often, we look to artists to help us focus, to organize our world and express it in a way we can understand, knowing...
Sad & Soulful Songs by Men With Broken Hearts.
"A Little Honey,” Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats latest top 20 Adult Alternative hit, has a big sound that includes Rateliff’s signature scorching, soulful vocals, reminding us of Solomon Burke's 1963 classic "If You Need Me." Artists like these pack a...
…And The Award Goes To…Janet Jackson…and she deserves it…
The annual Billboard Music Awards are on TV this Sunday night ( May 20th) on NBC (8ET/5PT) with Janet Jackson receiving their “ICON” award, in recognition of her long and successful career: recall that she was only 20 y/o, in 1986, when "When I Think Of You" hit #1...