Leonard Nimoy - Proud Mary

Why not?

Jimmy Burns - I Wanna Kiss You

Old school blues, recent recording.

Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - C.C. Rider / Jenny Take a Ride

George Harrison - Let It Down

Don and Juan - What's Your Name?

Another oldie.

Poco - Pickin' Up The Pieces

Clark Terry - Stardust

RIP. This was recorded in 1967.

Emmylou Harris - Wayfaring Stranger

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Until it's Time for You to Go

This song is rarely heard as performed by its songwriter.

Sam Myers - Ninety-Nine

Old school blues, but recorded fairly recently. The authentic practitioners of this style, like Sam Myers, are slowly leaving us. Fortunately we have this.

T.S. Eliot - Ash Wednesday

Lesley Gore - You Don't Own Me

RIP Lesley Sue Goldstein.

The Seekers - I'll Never Find Another You

Another sixties artifact.

The Kinks - No Return

Faux-Braziliana circa 1966.

Gary Owens - Golden Voice Announcers School

RIP

Robert Wyatt - Raining in My Heart

Goodbye Jon

What Digby said.

I'm sure I'll be writing more about the end of the Stewart-Colbert era which I think has been hugely important to liberal politics. But I have always had some reservations about Stewart's "serious" commentary which I'm seeing a whole lot of liberal pundits applaud today as if that's what made him important.  What made him important was that he took the piss out of pundits.

Gene Vincent - Blue Jean Bop

Buddy Guy ~ Feels Like Rain

Not sure what year this is, and it's not technically blues, but what the hell, it's nice.

Pharrell Williams - Happy

Great song. Congratulations on a well-deserved win.

Lonnie Johnson - Woke Up With the Blues In My Fingers

Not a lot of people these days have heard of Lonnie Johnson, but he was a very good and extremely influential guitarist.

The New Basement Tapes featuring Rhiannon Giddens - Hidee Hidee Ho #16

H/t PK @ NYT.

Krugman on Greece and the EU

Here.

Like all too many crises, the new Greek crisis stems, ultimately, from political pandering. It’s the kind of thing that happens when politicians tell voters what they want to hear, make promises that can’t be fulfilled, and then can’t bring themselves to face reality and make the hard choices they’ve been pretending can be avoided.

I am, of course, talking about Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and her colleagues.

Ole Bull - Sæterjentens Søndag

Nineteenth-century Norwegian violinist and composer. Not sure who the performers are.

Frank Sinatra - The Night We Called It A Day

Early Sinatra.

Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave)

The London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Krugman on Economics and the Long Run

Here you go.

We are, after all, still living through the aftermath of a once-in-three-generations financial crisis. America seems, finally, to be recovering — but Bowles-Simpsonism had its greatest influence precisely when the United States economy was still mired in a deep slump. Europe has hardly recovered at all, and there’s overwhelming evidence that austerity policies are the main reason for that ongoing disaster. So why the urge to change the subject to structural reform? The answer, I’d suggest, is intellectual laziness and lack of moral courage.

Steely Dan - Aja

Prolific pianist Joe Sample has been gone less than six months, which means that today those who celebrate his birthday do so without him. On this song he plays a supporting role on electric piano, but then a good session musician always does no more than what's required.