Music

Music-related Items on An Honest Con

–2020–

A Hell of a Year (Year-end Playlist)
December 27, 2020

Gonna Sit Right Down and… (ThematicOctober  Six Pack and Playlist)
October 4, 2020

Workin’ for a Living (Thematic Six Packa and Playlist)
September 6, 2020

I Hear Music (Book Review)
July 19, 2020

Key to the Highway (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
July 4, 2020

Long Gone Blues (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
May 24, 2020

–2019–

Wrap it Up (Year-end Playlist)
December 29, 1919

Buddy Guy and Mavis Staples at NJPAC (Concert Review)
November 11, 2019

Autumn’s Coming in the Air (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
August 31, 2019

Parodies and Prophecies (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
August 4, 2019

Rise up Singing (Thematic Sixpack and Playlist)
May 26, 2019

But They Don’t Have Cash (Playlist included)
March 31, 2019

Call Mr. Lee (Album Review and Playlist)
February 18, 2019

–2018–

Keep Me Warm in December (Year-end Playlist)
December 30, 2018

There’s a Certain Girl
December 10, 2018

Listen to the Music
September 23, 2018

The Finest Worksong (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
September 1, 2018

Tunes on the Dunes 2018 (Concert Review)
August 5, 2018

The Progs You Miss
July 29, 2018

We Need a Holiday (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
May 26, 2018

He Was the King (Retrospective, Playlist)
April 22, 2018

The Girl You Want (Playlist)
February 11, 2018

–2017–

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? (Year-end Playlist)
December 31, 2017

And Crossing Off Lists
The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s by Pitchfork Magazine
October 15, 2017

Heigh Ho Heigh Ho (Thematic Six Pack & Playlist)
September 3, 2017

Tunes on the Dunes 2017: The Duke Robillard Band at Misquamicut Beach, 8/9/2017 (Concert Review)
August 13, 2017

He Knows all the Chords
June 19,  2017

Time to Sit Back & Unwind (Thematic Six Pack & Playlist)
May 28, 2017

Dancin’ in a Ring Around the Sun (Album Review and Playlist)
April 15, 2017

Dig  That Jazz Band Ball (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
February 20, 2017

A Whizz of a Wiz
February 13, 2017

–2016–

Like a Christmas Tree on Boxing Day (Year-end Playlist)
December 26, 2016

Back in  the Garage (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
August 28, 2016

The Living is Easy (Thematic Six Pack and Playlist)
August 21, 2016

When Your Bird is Broken (Retrospective Six Pack, Playlist)
July 24, 2016

It’s Memorial Day (Thematic Six Pack and playlist)
May 28, 2016

Turning Rebellion into Money
April 24, 2016

Could Spark Up Nostalgia (Album Review and Playlist)
January 30, 2016

–2015–

Another Year Over (Year-end Playlist)
December 28, 2015

The Music Goes ‘Round and Around
November 29, 2015

(Ain’t but) One Way Out
August 22, 2015

Rocket Man
August 2,  2015

Brothers (In Arms) (Thematic Playlist)
July 18, 2015

Hey, Baby, It’s the Fourth of July (Thematic Playlist)
July 4, 2015

Back Off Boogaloo
June 28, 2015

Man He’s Got a Lot of Soul
May 23, 2015

Rosie Flores at the Continental 4/25/15
April 30, 2015

Gang of Four at Irving Plaza 3/7/2015
March 8, 2015

–2014–

A Musical Discursion
December 14, 2014

I Read it (in the Rolling Stone)
November 28, 20114

 Was Clapton Ever Really God?
April 20, 2014

How Much is Enough?
April 12, 2014

–2013–

Six Pack Follow-Up: An Unexpected Telecaster Duopoly
May 25, 2013

The Duchamp of Pop
May 11, 2013

Today’s Six Pack: Masters of the Telecaster ) (Playlist)
 May 2, 2013

 –2012–

Today’s Six-Pack: Unexpected Covers
November 11, 2012

Chris Isaak at the State Theatre New Brunswick, NJ, November 5, 2012
November 6, 2012

Bruce and Chris
August 31, 2012

Emily, David, Dave (and me)
June 28, 2008

The Modfather at Midlife (Concert Review)
Paul Weller at  the Best Buy Theatre, May 18, 2012
May 25, 2012

Junior Brown at McGonigel’s Mucky Duck, March 31 2012 (Show Review)
April 3, 2012

Why Howe? (Album Review)
Storm
Originally Released: 1987
February 4, 2012

 –2011–

New York’s Own Miniaturist (Album Review)
Suzanne Vega
Originally released: 1985
September 1, 2011

Best Music Writing 2009
Greil Marcus, Guest Editor; Daphne Carr, Series Editor
August 6, 2011

Ray, Jesse and Me  (Album Review)
God Willin’ and the Creek Don’t Rise
April 4, 2011

Best Music Writing 2008 (Book Review)
Nelson George, Guest Editor; Daphne Carr, Series Editor
March 8, 2011

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (Book Review)
Peter Guralnick
February 19, 2011

Gang of Four at Webster Hall–February 8, 2011 (Show Review)

Best Music Writing 2007 (Book Review)
Robert Christgau, Guest Editor; Daphne Carr, Series Editor
December 10, 2010

(Tales from) the Riverbank
December 9, 2010