#30DaySongChallenge

30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 7: A Song You Love From the 50’s

The next several days of the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel) are going to be a bit of a grand tour of musical history over the last 60 years. We start with the 1950’s, particular interesting to me as the decade when country, folk, blues, and gospel hopped into bed (and sometimes business) with…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 5: Favorite Song For Driving Around Town With The Top Down

I don’t own, and never have owned, a convertible.  (That’s me and my bff Dana Gabrion in the picture here, on a truly epic trip I took to the Left Coast to hang with her in L.A. a couple of years ago.  Dana owns a convertible, of course.)  I drive what can only be called,…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 4: A Song For A Sunny Day

Today’s prompt in the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel) is a little tough if you live in a place like Memphis. Why?  Because, if you live in a place like Memphis, your first question to yourself HAS TO BE: well, c’mon now, what kind of “sunny day” are you talking about? Of course, we…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 3: A Song For A Rainy Day

I should say first that there is very little that I don’t like about rainy days.  I don’t find them dark or depressing or forlorn at all.  On the contrary, I genuinely love a good rain, including and especially the blustery, electric, thunderous and torrential ones.  Even in its most violent expressions, there’s something soothing…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 2: A Song You Hate From A Band You Love

There’s very little that is more disappointing to a true music fan than when his or her favorite band records a bona fide stinker of a song.  When that happens, as it does all too often, I suspect most of us self-respecting music-lovers just avert our eyes/ears, turn away in ashamed obligation, give a conciliatory…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), Day 1: A Song You Like From A Band You Don’t Like

Part of me wanted to object to beginning this Challenge with a band I don’t like, since that seems contrary to the whole spirit of the enterprise, but I suppose since I’m picking a song I do like (even if it is from I band I don’t like) then I won’t complain.  Though, I guess…

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30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel): Rules

[For those of you who’ve arrived here from a link, you can read below the initial “rules” of the 30 day Song Challenge (The Sequel)… but, more importantly, the rest of you who are probably just looking for a quick access to ALL of Dr. J’s entries for the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel).. …

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30 Day Song Challenge, Redux

A couple of years ago on this blog, for the whole month of June, I participated in the 30 Day Song Challenge, a rather ingenious invention by some anonymous music-lover on Facebook.  The way the 30 Day Song Challenge works is that it provides one “prompt” every day– for example, “a song that makes you…

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 30: Your Favorite Song This Time Last Year

Today’s the last day of the 30 Day Song Challenge, and it’s been a lot of fun for me. That’s partly because I love music so much, and spending a whole month thinking about the different whys and wherefores that brought me to the songs that I love has indeed been a “challenge,” but a…

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30 Day Song Challenge, Day 29: A Song From Your Childhood

The television show that I loved the most as a child was a vaudeville-type show created by puppeteer Jim Henson called The Muppet Show. Some of my very best Muppet friends appeared on the show regularly: Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzy Bear, The Swedish Chef, Rowlf the Dog, Statler and Waldorf (pictured left),…

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