Post Tagged with: "One Track Mind"

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One Track Mind: Alex Hargreaves, "April Joy" (2010)

Photo by Maria Camillo by S. Victor Aaron Sometimes it takes a fantastic cover of a song to make you realize how good the original has always been. This One Track Mind is about one of those times. When I think of the eponymous Pat Metheny Group album from wayRead More

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One Track Mind: Stevie Coyle – "Train On The Brain" (2009)

by S. Victor Aaron A few weeks ago, with little warning, my office got transferred from the cozy suburbs to the concrete jungle. Stranded in a 7th floor cube farm in the middle of Gotham about 30 miles from home and averse to sitting still on freeways, it was timeRead More

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One Track Mind: Kermit Ruffins – "A Saints Christmas" (2009)

by Pico Since the New Orleans Saints is the Officialâ„¢ NFL Team of Something Else, we were most bummed about the end of the team’s incredible winning streak last Saturday in the ‘Dome at the hands of the Dallas Cowboys. But we still remain hopeful that our boys in theRead More

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Deep Cuts: Hall and Oates – "Do What You Want, Be What You Are" (1976)

So today we open up a new series “Deep Cuts,” where your friendly music guides here at Something Else pull out and call attention to a more obscure track taken from familiar, sometimes classic, records. If you’re like us, you’re more of an “album” guy than a “singles” guy andRead More

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One Track Mind: Kenny Loggins, with Jim Messina – "Two of Us" (2009)

By Nick DeRiso “Two Of Us,” the old Beatles album cut, is reborn — as is a long-ago relationship — in the hands of this pair of early 1970s-era country-rock stars. Part of a new Disney children’s album “All Join In,” the tune is actually one of two by theRead More

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One Track Mind: Ozric Tentacles, "Armchair Journey" (2006)

By Pico Sometime early on in the life of this site when I penned my first review of a progressive rock performance, I mentioned something about listening to prog rock perhaps a lot more than I write about it. Since we started up more than three years ago, only 12Read More

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One Track Mind: Al Green, "Tired of Being Alone" (1971)

You made out to Al Green. It’s what worked. Only later, did you realize all that had gone on in those records, starting with this — Green’s first charting hit, “Tired of Being Alone.” His is a voice that whips around, like a sparrow, from flat-footed baritone — all silky-smoothRead More

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One Track Mind: Kenny Loggins (with Michael Jackson) "Who's Right, Who's Wrong" (1979)

by Pico Ever had a song that you enjoyed listening to when it first came out, then moved on and forgot about it only to have some event trigger the memory of that song many years later? Such was the case for me with a thirty year old deep cutRead More

Bill Champlin, "Tuggin' on Your Sleeve" from No Place Left To Fall (2009): One Track Mind

Bill Champlin, “Tuggin’ on Your Sleeve” from No Place Left To Fall (2009): One Track Mind

Bill Champlin has a face to match his voice — rugged and sharp-edged, a great gravelly visage.

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One Track Mind: Joe Sample "Rainbow Seeker" (1978)

by Pico Back in the late seventies my oldest brother would come home from college for the weekend and bring with him records by all these fusion and crossover jazz figures that I hadn’t heard of before but sounded good to my younger ears. That’s how I first got toRead More