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
What’s With the Tequila?
As long as men drink and dream about pretty women and a life on the beach, there will be a song about it, and odds are it will include tequila. In 1977 Jimmy Buffet’s “Margaritaville” took its rightful place in the zeitgeist. He became a pop culture icon, tequila...
Pop Culture on Steroids: The Goddess, The Teen Heart Throb and “50 Shades of Grey”
Taylor Swift, Goddess of Everything, has teamed up with Zayn Malik, one of the world’s biggest pop stars (formerly with legendary boy band One Direction), for a song that is on the soundtrack of “50 Shades Darker” the not-yet-released sequel to “50 Shades of...
How To Be Hip At Your Holiday Parties
Casually mention “Black Beatles” at holiday parties, and you’ll be the hippest person in the room. One of The hottest tunes in music right now --#1 on Rhythmic Top 40 radio—is “Black Beatles” by a a duo known as Rae Sremmurd, two brothers from Tupelo,...
A Tender Song About A Son Missing His Dad
Safe to say music from Denmark has not been a major force in the USA music market. However, earlier this year, Danish group Lukas Graham broke through with “7 Years,” one of the biggest success stories of 2016, a tender story line that covered various life stages,...
For The Boomer Who Is Also a Folkie
There’s a terrific new song out-- "A 1000 Times” --that glides along with tender emotion on a melody that resembles Peter, Paul & Mary’s “500 Miles” which was a hit in 1962, folk music’s halcyon days. “A 1000 Times” is an intense song about “the big...
A “Must Read” for John Lennon Fans & Aficianados
Yesterday marks 36-years since John Lennon’s shocking and tragic murder. Luckily, he left a legacy of interviews, the last one, recorded on the afternoon of the day he died, was with BoomerMusicUpdate.com curator Dave Sholin, and that final Lennon interview is...
Country Song Is Wishing For A “Better Man”
Little Big Town, who hit it out of the park in 2015 with “Girl Crush,” a song that’s in a league of its own, which went #1 Country, charted on Adult Top 40, and was immediately added to my personal list of all time favorites, has a new song out, “Better Man,”...
“Life Goes On”
“Life Goes On” by Fergie is out of my format comfort zone, but I listened with an open ear and mind, because the awareness of new, quality, popular music, some of which l love and some not so much, connects me to what’s happening in the culture at large--...
Miranda Lambert At Her Most Country
It's not fun when I really like an artist, and s/he releases a song that I don't like at all, for example, "We Should Be Friends," Miranda Lambert's newest. I love Country music--and I really like Miranda Lambert, so I'm sorry that this current single from her album,...