Dr. John's Record Shelf & Photo Gallery: November 2016

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Photo of the Day

Market Street Triple Exposure, San Francisco 2016

This Week's Playlist & Podcast

It was time for the annual Guilty Pleasures edition of Dr. John's Record Shelf this past Sunday. You can see a list of the songs played below, and by clicking here you can listen to a full recording of the program.

Locomotion, Grand Funk Railroad

You've Got Your Troubles, Fortunes

Which Way You Goin', Billy, Poppy Family

Last Train to Clarksville, Monkees

The Free Electric Band, Albert Hammond

My Love, Petula Clark

Big City Miss Ruth Ann, Gallery

Rock Me Gently, Andy Kim

He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, Neil Diamond

Brother Louie, Stories

Poetry Mman, Phoebe Snow

My Maria, B.W. Stephenson

Sunshine, Jonathan Edwards

It's a Heartache, Bonnie Tyler

Master Jack, Four Jacks & a Jill

Mr. Tambourine Man, William Shatner

The More I See You, Chris Montez

I Honestly Love You, Olivia Newton-John

Tracy, The Cuff Links

Hooked on a Feeling, B.J. Thomas

Arizona, Mark Lindsay

Get on Up, The Esquires

Back When My Hair Was Short, Gunhill Road

Gimme Little Sign, Brenton Wood

Jingle Jangle, Archies

A Horse With No Name, America

Baby I'm a Want You, Bread

Two Divided by Love, Grass Roots

One Man Band, Three Dog Night

The Drum, Bobby Sherman

Back in the USA, Linda Ronstadt

Life is a Rock, Reunion

Long Tall Glasses, Leo Sayer

Monday, November 28, 2016

Photo of the Day

Boardwalk Sunset, 2016

My Favorite Painting, Today

Ben Shahn, Spring 1947

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Photo of the Day

Waiting for the Show to Start, 2016

My Favorite Song, Today

Pike Place Market

A selection of photographs taken in and around Pike Place Market in Seattle last May.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Photo of the Day

Grasshopper Creek, 2016

Charles Bradley at Canalside

More photos from last summer, this time of a great evening down at Canalside to hear soul man extraordinaire Charles Bradley. Here's a mix of shots of the performer and his audience (whether they were listening or not).

Dear Santa

Here’s the list I’m sending to Santa this year for things I wouldn’t mind finding under my Christmas tree. If anyone reading this would like to share their list in the comments, I’ll pass it along to St. Nick as well.

Books:

Simon Reynolds, Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy (Music)

Philip Lopate, American Film Critics: From Silents Until Now (Film)

David Bordwell, The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture (Film)

Eric Weisbard, Top Forty Democracy: The Rival Mainstreams of American Music (Music)

Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: the 400 Year Untold History of Class in America (History)

Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and hte Racial Imagination

Stephen Petrus, Folk City: New York and the American Folk Revival (Music)

Cari Beauchamp, My First Time in Hollywood (Movies)

Seth Rosenfeld, Subversives: The FBI's War on Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power (History)

Benjamin Cawthra, Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Music/Photography)

Devon Powers, Writing the Record: The Village Voice and the Birth of Rock Criticism (Music)

Simon Napier-Bell, Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay: The Dodgy Business of Popular Music (Music)
Fred Turner, The Democratic Surround (History)

DVDs:

Crumb

The Americanization of Emily

In No Great Hurry- 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

I can also always use SD memory cards for my camera, any brand or amount of memory but preferably class 10.

Friday, November 25, 2016

Photo of the Day

Hula Hooper, Larkin Square 2016

Lily Dale Fairy Trail

This is a sequel to a post from last July, after a visit to the community of Lily Dale. They have a Fairy Trail adjacent to the village along which some creative people have constructed a wide variety of habitats for various denizens of the spirit world. These are some photos of a few of those spots (along with a window display of what appears to be a main supplier of the inhabitants).

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Photo of the Day

Helen & Natalie, 2011

Toonerville Thanksgiving


Puss & Montana, 2016

The Spokane River, 2016

Ghost Jim in Jail, Bannack 2016

At the Crossroads, 2015

Poetry Patron, Silo City 2016

Skater at Rest, 2016

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Photo of the Day

Train to Snoqualmie Falls, 2014

This Week's Playlist & Podcast

This week's episode of Dr. John's Record Shelf featured plenty of great music (list below), and you can listen to a recording of the program by clicking here.

Johnny Volume, Alejandro Escovedo

Statue of the Greatest Woman I Know, Hooten Tennis Club

Seven Words, Weyes Blood

Whisper Down the Lane, Trolleyvox

Better Things, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings

57 Ways to End it All, Raincoats

Don't Underestimate Me, San Francisco Seals

Free Love, Cornershop

Ta Bueno Conpadre, Texas Tornados

Foxes on the Run, Sweet

Tear Me Apart, Suzi Quatro

96 Tears, ? & the Mysterians