Sigh...This happens every year. No matter how much music I listen to from a particular year, there are always a few missed opportunities, i.e. good songs that I don't hear until the year after they're released. Three such songs from 2024 are among today's six Thursday afternoon standouts:
KCSB (Santa Barbara, CA)
- Venus In Cancer-Robbie Basho (A pleasant, lengthy guitar instrumental, which was a suitable backdrop for DJ Clementine's thorough back announcing.)
KMMS (Bozeman, MT)
- Ah, Mary-Grace Potter And The Nocturnals (Potter's forthright vocals fit the lyrics about the pitfalls of a power-mad country effectively.)
KTSU (Houston, TX)
- Gulf Coast Breeze-Cory DuJuan (Uptempo smooth jazz with nice harmony between the saxophone and piano.)
WMNF (Tampa, FL)
- Hold Me Up (Thank You)-Khruangbin (The echo effect on the vocals serves this ear-catching dance groove well.)
WUMB (Boston, MA)
- Over And Over-Shelby Lynne (The unusual brassy opening drew me in, and just the right amount of emoting in Lynne's vocals kept me listening. "Gotta Get Back" and "Telephone" are still my two favorites of hers, but I have yet to hear a track from her that I dislike.)
WYML (Ingleside, IL)
- Fight The Good Fight-Triumph (The first words that come to mind after not hearing this 1981 album rock track for many years: High energy, guitar-heavy, and no-holds-barred vocals. Lyrically, it's an apt metaphor for what many of us will need to do when the new vexing presidential administration takes over.)
