Sunday afternoon standouts:
Lo-Fi Cafe
- Valencia Street-Lofi Coffee (Well-placed keyboard notes sustain this riff.)
Outlaw Country
- The Wheel-Patty Griffin (Good lyrics about justifiable angst that an unjust world causes.)
Real Jazz
- Take The L Train (To Brooklyn)-Brooklyn Funk Essentials (I knew I was in good hands upon hearing the opening interplay between between bass and trumpet.)
Record Store
- Alone Again Or-Love (This is still one of the best heart-on-sleeve tunes I've ever heard. Calexico recorded an equally strong cover of it.)
The Village
- Sweet Sixteenths-Alison Brown/Sierra Hull (This instrumental would segue seamlessly with Willie Nelson's version of Bach's Minuet In G. Yes, really.)
Willie's Roadhouse
- I'll Do It All Over Again-Crystal Gayle (I like that these lyrics have the resolve of the attitude in Gerry Rafferty's "Get It Right Next Time.")
Yacht Rock Deep Cuts
- World Leave Me Alone-Ambrosia (There's a confident swagger in the lyrics, vocals, and instrumentation here.)
Yacht Soul
- I Can't Help It-Michael Jackson (One of several tracks that illustrate why Jackson's "Off The Wall" album holds up better than "Thriller," in my opinion. You can tell right away that these are Stevie Wonder's lyrics.)
