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Cream, Tales of Brave Ulysses
Part 64 of my youtube countdown introduces Cream, or “the late great Cream” as John Lennon once said in 1968. That’s right, Cream was a streaking comet of psychedelic blues perfection, blasting through the pop music charts from 1966 to 1968 selling 35 million albums in just two years! Cream was considered the world’s first…
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Skip James, Chris Thomas King, Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Hi, its part 63 of my youtube countdown is completely awesome. Big set up I know, but I got “Hard Time Killing Floor Blues,” a legendary blues song written and performed by delta bluesman Skip James, and Chris Thomas King, who helped make the song famous for its inclusion in the “O Brother Where Art…
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The Rolling Stones, Like a Rolling Stone (Live)
Part 61 of my youtube countdown rocks on with the Rolling Stones performing Bob Dylan’s classic “Like a Rolling Stone,” from their 1998 Bridges to Babylon tour. The Rolling Stones have performed this song for decades, I guess a bit ironically, as an unofficial band anthem, though not really. I mean, did they just want…
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Ween, The Mollusk
For part 59 of my youtube countdown, I have another video from Ween’s amazing 1997 record, The Mollusk. The song, appropriately enough, is “The Mollusk” itself. This song is a beautiful story about a semi-creepy older man talking to a boy at the beach about a magical mollusk he found by the shore. It’s a…
