Song of the Day: Mississippi River Queen

David Allan Coe is a free spirit who has followed an unconventional career path. Nothing wrong with that. He's also a pretty darned good songwriter. While Johnny Paycheck made the song famous, Coe was the one who wrote Take This Job and Shove It, giving voice to a feeling that all of us have experienced

By |2016-10-21T15:28:29-05:00September 28th, 2013|Song of the Day|Comments Off on Song of the Day: Mississippi River Queen
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Song of the Day: Basin Street Blues

For today's Song of the Day, we turn to Dr. John for a portrait of life in the Crescent City. Basin Street Blues was written by Spencer Williams in the 1920s;.Louis Armstrong recorded a version in 1928, but, unlike this one by Dr. John, it does not mention the Mississippi River. Those lyrics were, according

By |2016-10-21T15:28:45-05:00October 6th, 2012|Song of the Day|Comments Off on Song of the Day: Basin Street Blues
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