Doakes Sunday: Sounds And Fury, Signifying Music
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
I’m working my way through two inches of abstract of title to a parcel of real estate, preparing to write an Attorney’s Opinion on Title, while listening to “Truckin” by the Grateful Dead. Enjoying my job today, the music is a big part of it.
What do other SITD readers listen to?
Joe Doakes
The last ten songs on my rotation:
- “Take It Inside”, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes
- “It’s All I Can Do”, Cars
- “Lonely Road of Faith”, Kid Rock
- “It’s Not Over”, Allison Krause w/Mark Chesnutt
- “No Mercy”, Nils Lofgren
- “The Closer”, Marah
- “Mama Said”, Metallica
- “Beautiful Girl”, INXS
- “Sign O The Times”, Prince
- “The Rising of the Moon”, The Clancy Brothers
June 28th, 2015 at 3:57 pm
The only recording artists on my list are Slim Whitman and Enya. Why does anyone need to listen to anything else?
June 29th, 2015 at 5:11 am
A recent assortment:
Lightning Strikes, Lou Christie
Itchycoo Park, the Small Faces
Cheeseburger in Paradise, Jimmy Buffet
You Got the Silver, Rolling Stones
Feelin’ Alright, Joe Cocker
Heroes and Villains, the Beach Boys
Dependin’ on You, the Doobie Brothers
Are You Experienced?, the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Dream in Blue, Los Lobos
Half as Much, Patsy Cline
Cruisin’, Smokey Robinson
TNT, AC/DC
Love Man, Otis Redding
Lawyers, Guns & Money, Warren Zevon
June 29th, 2015 at 5:53 am
“Selling England by the Pound” has been in heavy rotation on my player lately.
June 29th, 2015 at 9:25 pm
Ry Cooder – The Very Thing That Makes You Rich (Makes Me Poor)
John Prine – Ain’t Hurtin’ Nobody
Lucinda Williams – Wrap My Head Around That” and “Are You All Right
Diana Krall – You’re Looking at Me
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime (live)
Alt-J (∆) – Matilda
Jack White – Lazaretto
The Jayhawks – Blue
Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart and Impossible Germany
June 29th, 2015 at 11:15 pm
So, really. Hillbilly yodeling is not as popular as I thought it was? You know, even the good stuff? Hank Snow and Jimmy Rodgers? Slim Whitman is okay, and a true artiste, of course, but he’s planting the ground first plowed by Hank Snow and Jimmy Rodgers.
Kids these days. Can’t tell music from noise.
June 30th, 2015 at 6:12 am
Will you be working at the new ‘Thirty Meter Telescope’ on Mauna Kea when it’s completed?