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
New Orleans Lives Up To Her Reputation
Once again, the City of New Orleans is contributing a really great song—“Wish I Knew You” by their hometown band the 'The Revivalists,’ proclaimed last March by Rolling Stone magazine as "One of the10 Bands You Need To Know." This song is Just. So. Good. The...
Feminist With A Sense of Humor
“Two songs sung by strong women with strong statements and forceful melodies.” If it’s true that pop music reflects the culture, than here’s a vivid example of “my, how things have changed” in the “guys who stray” department. In 1983, 19-year old Baby Boomer Shannon’s...
July 4th With Willie Nelson
Americans celebrate the 4th of July in many different ways: a neighborhood and/or family bar-b-q, a swim party, a picnic at the park, a concert. And then there is the famed “Willie Nelson 4th of July Party,” a Texas tradition since 1973 when it landed like a...
Mothers & Children In Pop Music
One of 2016’s defining songs, "7 Years," by the Danish band Lukas Graham, tells of a boy’s relationship with his father, from childhood through adulthood. The band’s follow-up single, "Mama Said," out just now, is also storytelling that’s wise beyond Lukas Graham’s...
Lesley Gore’s ‘You Don’t Own Me” Updated
As a Boomer, I’m pleasantly surprised when a song that we listened to over 50 years ago is updated and re-recorded, so that it sounds similar to the original, but also modern and hip, and then it becomes a hit all over again. Originally by Lesley Gore, in 1963, when...
The Enduring Charm of GREASE: The Play, The Movie, The Songs
Tomorrow starts the first “official weekend of Summer," the season that has inspired a long list of hit songs, including “Summer Nights” from “Grease” which was a hit on Broadway in the early 70’s--when most Boomers weren't even driving yet, and, then, in the...
Songs of Summer
Each summer has a handful of signature songs. Pink had one, in 2001, "Get The Party Started" and now, 15 years later, Country star Thomas Rhett’s "Vacation" keeps the party going with that same high energy, care free spirit. Rhett has been on one of the...
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats: Big, Bold & Powerful
There’s a certain sound that taps into some Boomers, including me, in a powerful way, and for those of us, there is Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats—the band that hit it big last year when their “S.O.B.” exploded onto the airwaves. I’m happy to report...
A Song About Fathers For Father’s Day
Relationships between parents and children can often be complicated and difficult to explain, even in song. The Cat Stevens ballad, “Father And Son,” from his classic 1970 album “Tea For The Tillerman,” conveys tenderness, caring and honesty in that 70s style of Too...