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
Reggae Redux! Yeah!
Numerous sounds and genres weave their way into the music of Dirty Heads, a six-man band from Huntington Beach, CA, but it's reggae that drives their rock sensibilities, and you know what that means: It’s all good. Mellow to the max. “One Love.” "Vacation" their...
Love: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
As Boomers, we’ve lived long enough to have experienced love’s many moods: life-long partnerships, one-night stands, marriage, divorce, and “just friends”--with and without benefits--all have inspired hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of songs. In 1976, Leo...
Sheila E at (soon to be) 60-years Old: Still Putting It Out There
In 1984, Sheila E's "The Glamorous Life" hit #1 on the Dance chart; you probably heard it every few hours on your favorite Top 40 radio station. Though an accomplished player on many instruments, it's drums that she's best known--after all, it's in her...
Luke Combs: Modern Take on Traditional Country
2017 has been Country singer/songwriter Luke Combs year. His "Hurricane" went to #1, and so is his follow-up, “When It Rains, It Pours” which is a straight ahead Country sound with a clever, lighthearted story line-- no heartbreak or hardship here--rather he wins $100...
Bowie to Borns: Urgent, Androgynous and Superbly Talented
Two years ago, Boomer Music Update raved about Borns’ Euro-sounding "Electric Love,” which went platinum and was a solid hit in both the pop and rock worlds. We used words like fantastic, “almost a ‘Must Listen To,’” energizing and mesmerizing, modern, fun,...
Lyrics As Good As Those From The 70’s
Sam Smith’s “Pray” I’m young and I’m foolish, I’ve made bad decisions I block out the news, turn my back on religion Don’t have no degree, I’m somewhat naïve I’ve made it this far on my own But lately, that shit ain’t been getting me higher I lift up my head and world...
Charlie Puth: A Young, Modern-Day Crooner
Dave Sholin's mid-week pick: "How Long" by 26-year old singer/songwriter and New Jersey boy Charlie Puth. It’s bolted up both the Top 40 and Adult Top 40 charts and is moving into position to become one of the first big hits of 2018. "How Long" is a guy...
This is Beck? Oh My!
Beck and Gene Simmons (and the whole KISS band)—could they be more different? Blond and pale, cerebral and artistic Beck is the opposite of Simmons, the wild, crazed rocker, in full-face makeup, with his tongue sticking out. The anti-Beck. And yet… Both are...
Paying The Proper Respect: Fats Domino
Fats Domino had a long life and nearly as long a career, having recorded his first hit almost 70 years ago, 1949's "The Fat Man"-- the earliest Boomers were only three years old. By the the mid-50's everybody, certainly in the USA, knew him -- he performed...