Phil Maq

In honor of Thanksgiving Day, and the fact that I am not a fan of eating turkey, here’s a song for all of the vegetarians out there who must be going crazy out there today. Here’s Joanie Leeds and The Nightlights doing “Tofurky Song”

Bruce Springsteen [Hall of Fame] caused a bit of a stir–not of his own making, when he sang “Fortunate Son,” a John Fogerty, Creedence Clearwater Revival song with Dave Grohl, and Zack Brown at this year’s “Concert of Valor.” He’s been covering this song since it came out some 45 years ago, but for some reason uninformed commentators–who know nothing about music, decided to make an issue of it. This video is for people that you have to sit next to at Thanksgiving Day dinners whose brains are smaller than the one that was in the turkey!:

Continuing the previous description, it’s not a Thanksgiving Day without hearing Paul Thorn doing “I Don’t Like Half the Folks I Love.” (But ya gotta love them!) HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!

If you aren’t a big kid who will never grow up like me, you may not have caught the latest episode of The Simpsons. Homer Simpson forms a cover band with some of the other dads on the show. The band, “Covercraft,” becomes a big hit at a lot of “cabbage festivals.” Homer’s instrument of choice is the bass. Who knew he could be so funky! The whole episode isn’t available yet, but here’s the show’s opening sequence complete with Homer’s musical observations!:

While I’m in a silly mood, why not check out what “Weird Al” Yankovic is up to. This summer, Al released his contract ending 14th(?) album(!!!), and scored his first #1 on that chart! (Take that all you haters who thought he wasn’t making music anymore! Obviously, you haven’t been listening to my “Theme Attic” show where Al routinely pops up. He not only does covers, but he also writes some good originals! Anyway, back to the story.)
He says it will probably be his last official album. That doesn’t mean he’s hanging up his accordion (or his curly hair). It just means that for someone who does musical satire, there are faster ways to put out topical music. Here, Al riffs on Lorde’s “Royals”…and other things.:

To turn serious for a half second, Glen Campbell put out somewhat of a comeback album about six years ago, called “Meet Glen Campbell.” The album brought Glen back into the music world after being neglected for a number of years. It was followed up a few years later by another solid album. (“Ghost on the Canvas”) Glen wasn’t punching a clock or playing memories. He was being creative again. Here’s the video for “Sing” from that album. (Thanks for the request, Bill!):

Alright back to the silly! Here’s a deleted scene (for obvious reasons), of that bass man Homer Simpson:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Post election day videos (Congratulations, if you’re happy!):
Huey Lewis and The News reworked a Dave Edmunds song, “Bad Is Bad,” into this bluesy version:

This Travis Tritt song might be more than 20 years old, but it still rings true today, even more so. Unfortunately. The title says it all: “Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man”:

Moving on to a different subject, this week’s new Hall of Fame entry battled British invasion artists quite successfully– even though they sometimes sounded British themselves! With the recent passing of “Paul Revere,” it’s time to place Paul Revere and The Raiders where they belong as probably the greatest garage bands of all time! Here they are delivering an early hit, “Steppin’ Out!: