Jeffrey G.
@oldgreycat-orig.bsky.social
I blog about music, memories and other things at The Old Grey Cat (oldgreycat.blog).
Wee Three ad from Nov. 27, 1980…
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Wee Three ad from Nov. 27, 1980…
Here's a flashback to when #TheStaves were three. youtu.be/54d7eLVeCjo?...
The Staves: These Days | Peluso Microphone Lab Presents: Yellow Couch Sessions
YouTube video by Yellow Couch Sessions
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November 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Here's a flashback to when #TheStaves were three. youtu.be/54d7eLVeCjo?...
A year ago tonight the Staves delivered a spellbinding show in Carrboro… oldgreycat.blog/2024/11/13/t...
The Staves, Shallow Alcove & Pizza at the Cat’s Cradle Back Room, 11/12/24
Magical. Mesmerizing. Mystical. Those adjectives aptly sum up last night, when the Staves—aka sisters Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor—enchanted the audience at a sold-out Cat’s Cradle Back Room…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A year ago tonight the Staves delivered a spellbinding show in Carrboro… oldgreycat.blog/2024/11/13/t...
Happy birthday, #NeilYoung! Thanks for the music, including this behemoth of an album… oldgreycat.blog/2019/09/07/t...
The Essentials: Psychedelic Pill by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
(As noted in my first Essentials entry, this is an occasional series in which I spotlight albums that, in my estimation, everyone should experience at least once.) Last night, as is often the …
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November 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Happy birthday, #NeilYoung! Thanks for the music, including this behemoth of an album… oldgreycat.blog/2019/09/07/t...
Here's another of my #5debutalbums1014 contenders: Natalie Duncan's remarkable Devil in Me, which was released in 2012. This is one of its key tracks... youtu.be/iuEB2xMX0-M?...
Natalie Duncan - Sky Is Falling
YouTube video by NatalieDuncanVEVO
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November 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Here's another of my #5debutalbums1014 contenders: Natalie Duncan's remarkable Devil in Me, which was released in 2012. This is one of its key tracks... youtu.be/iuEB2xMX0-M?...
Here's another of my #5DebutAlbums1014 contenders: Anna Calvi's self-titled set from 2011. It's a little Bowie, a little Sergio Leone, and a lotta fun. youtu.be/PEt0odB7ljg?...
Anna Calvi - I'll Be Your Man
YouTube video by Alberto Garey
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November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Here's another of my #5DebutAlbums1014 contenders: Anna Calvi's self-titled set from 2011. It's a little Bowie, a little Sergio Leone, and a lotta fun. youtu.be/PEt0odB7ljg?...
Received my vinyl of #WingsDeluxe by Paul, Linda & pals today. Don’t think it’ll supplant the Wingspan set, but it is a solid collection. oldgreycat.blog/2025/11/06/f...
First Impressions: Wings (Deluxe) by Paul McCartney & Wings
The 1970s were a time of tumult, transgression, and transition, when war and Watergate gave way to oil shortages, inflation, unemployment, and a malaise so profound that President Jimmy Carter took…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Received my vinyl of #WingsDeluxe by Paul, Linda & pals today. Don’t think it’ll supplant the Wingspan set, but it is a solid collection. oldgreycat.blog/2025/11/06/f...
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I will be at Hideaway Music in Chestnut Hill Friday with my book, Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind (grahamparkershowlinwind.net). Stop by for a chat about how @thegrahamparker.bsky.social created this acclaimed album. #singersongwriter #rockandroll #pubrock #britishrock #music #nicklowe
Author to share stories of Graham Parker at Hideaway Music - The Chestnut Hill Local
When Jay Nachman was a college student at Temple University, he would often sit with other students in his dorm and listen to music. There was always a debate on which album to choose.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I will be at Hideaway Music in Chestnut Hill Friday with my book, Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind (grahamparkershowlinwind.net). Stop by for a chat about how @thegrahamparker.bsky.social created this acclaimed album. #singersongwriter #rockandroll #pubrock #britishrock #music #nicklowe
Among my #5DebutAlbums1014 contenders: Loveless Unbeliever by the School, a retro-flavored band from Wales. It’s an addictive listen. youtu.be/YMZyepKutns?...
THE SCHOOL - Can't Understand [Official]
YouTube video by Elefant Records
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November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Among my #5DebutAlbums1014 contenders: Loveless Unbeliever by the School, a retro-flavored band from Wales. It’s an addictive listen. youtu.be/YMZyepKutns?...
Here's an old voyage through time to November 1984, when #BruceSpringsteen was planning to "register and vote my conscience" in that year's election. #LindseyBuckingham #U2, #RickieLeeJones and the #EverlyBrothers are also featured. oldgreycat.blog/2016/04/10/t...
Today’s Top 5: November 1984 (via Musician)
November 1984: Have I covered this month before? No, apparently not. Oh, I have a Top 5 that covers the previous month and also penned a remembrance of a Walter Mondale rally I attended (thoug…
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November 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Here's an old voyage through time to November 1984, when #BruceSpringsteen was planning to "register and vote my conscience" in that year's election. #LindseyBuckingham #U2, #RickieLeeJones and the #EverlyBrothers are also featured. oldgreycat.blog/2016/04/10/t...
Heartbreaking news. Pierre was one of Philly’s preeminent deejays - a true icon. www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...
Longtime WMMR host Pierre Robert has died at 70
The cause of death was not immediately known.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Heartbreaking news. Pierre was one of Philly’s preeminent deejays - a true icon. www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...
Sometimes I hear a song and just know that artist behind it will be contributing to the soundtrack of my life for the rest of my days. Such is the case with Ella Haber, an Australian R&B/soul singer-songwriter, whose "Don't Let It Die" is akin to slipping into a warm bath. youtu.be/CBNAEBg0Q0I?...
Ella Haber - don't let it die
YouTube video by Ella Haber
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October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Sometimes I hear a song and just know that artist behind it will be contributing to the soundtrack of my life for the rest of my days. Such is the case with Ella Haber, an Australian R&B/soul singer-songwriter, whose "Don't Let It Die" is akin to slipping into a warm bath. youtu.be/CBNAEBg0Q0I?...
We saw the Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere movie yesterday. As I said before, it's interesting yet flawed - and worthwhile. And, as all things Springsteen, it spurs what I jokingly call deep thoughts... oldgreycat.blog/2025/10/28/o...
On Springsteen, Nebraska, & Deliver Me From Nowhere
The stories we embrace and reject, the lore we love and hate, are much on my mind, these days. Archetypes, symbolism, and metaphors inform our fables, which often inflate life lessons with a grande…
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October 28, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We saw the Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere movie yesterday. As I said before, it's interesting yet flawed - and worthwhile. And, as all things Springsteen, it spurs what I jokingly call deep thoughts... oldgreycat.blog/2025/10/28/o...
Among my #5debutalbums1014 picks will be this one, from Rumer. Seasons of My Soul is an atmospheric song cycle that’s teeming with soulful, knowing lyrics and melodies that wrap themselves around the heart, to say nothing of Rumer’s emotive, pitch-perfect vocals. youtu.be/ERzNIzrEnLg?...
Rumer - Aretha
YouTube video by Rumer
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October 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Among my #5debutalbums1014 picks will be this one, from Rumer. Seasons of My Soul is an atmospheric song cycle that’s teeming with soulful, knowing lyrics and melodies that wrap themselves around the heart, to say nothing of Rumer’s emotive, pitch-perfect vocals. youtu.be/ERzNIzrEnLg?...
Here’s a flashback to October 1985 via the pages of Musician magazine. Among those spotlighted: John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dwight Yoakam, and Bryan Ferry. oldgreycat.blog/2015/10/25/t...
Today’s Top 5: October 1985 (via Musician)
I first picked up Musician magazine in the early 1980s. As the name indicates, it was geared to musicians – of which, I wasn’t one. I didn’t buy it for the pictures of instru…
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October 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Here’s a flashback to October 1985 via the pages of Musician magazine. Among those spotlighted: John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dwight Yoakam, and Bryan Ferry. oldgreycat.blog/2015/10/25/t...
Seven years ago this week, I was grooving to one of my favorite songs - “Rainy Night in Georgia,” which was written by #TonyJoeWhite. Although he recorded it, the definitive version is by #BrookBenton (though #ShelbyLynne does a great take on it, too.) oldgreycat.blog/2018/10/27/a...
A Song Roundup: A Rainy Night in Georgia
Not long after graduating high school, Tony Joe White (1943-2018) moved from rural Louisiana, where he’d been raised on a cotton farm, to Marietta, Ga., where a sister lived, in pursuit of a better…
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October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Seven years ago this week, I was grooving to one of my favorite songs - “Rainy Night in Georgia,” which was written by #TonyJoeWhite. Although he recorded it, the definitive version is by #BrookBenton (though #ShelbyLynne does a great take on it, too.) oldgreycat.blog/2018/10/27/a...
This was another of my #885GreatestCoverSongs picks, this one guaranteed to not make the cut due to its obscurity - it's a YouTube video by a not well-known artist. But the way #DianeBirch blends Gossip with Screamin' Jay Hawkins is utterly intoxicating... youtu.be/wRQn7NfUwQg?...
October 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This was another of my #885GreatestCoverSongs picks, this one guaranteed to not make the cut due to its obscurity - it's a YouTube video by a not well-known artist. But the way #DianeBirch blends Gossip with Screamin' Jay Hawkins is utterly intoxicating... youtu.be/wRQn7NfUwQg?...
Good advice, no matter one's age, from Aussie country singer Emily Lubitz... youtu.be/tN9__gwh2QE?...
Emily Lubitz + Fight Night Records 'StayTender-Hearted' [LIVE]
YouTube video by emily Lubitz
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October 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Good advice, no matter one's age, from Aussie country singer Emily Lubitz... youtu.be/tN9__gwh2QE?...
Five years ago today, I spotlighted one of my favorite artists, jazz chanteuse #MelodyGardot. oldgreycat.blog/2020/10/25/t...
Today’s Top 5: Melody Gardot
It’s a damp and dreary day in the Triangle, cool but not cold, with the lousy weather stretching up the east coast to our old stomping grounds outside of Philadelphia. The main difference: It’s chi…
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October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Five years ago today, I spotlighted one of my favorite artists, jazz chanteuse #MelodyGardot. oldgreycat.blog/2020/10/25/t...
Here’s another #5debutalbums8084 contender: the Dream Syndicate’s full-length debut, The Days of Wine and Roses. I spotlighted the 4-CD box set version of it two years ago… oldgreycat.blog/2023/06/25/f...
The Essentials: History Kinda Pales When It and You Are Aligned: The Days of Wine and Roses 40th Anniversary Edition by the Dream Syndicate
As the distance between then and now increases, the ‘80s are becoming little more than a series of static pictures set within a flip-book animation. When sped through, which is how said animation w…
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October 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Here’s another #5debutalbums8084 contender: the Dream Syndicate’s full-length debut, The Days of Wine and Roses. I spotlighted the 4-CD box set version of it two years ago… oldgreycat.blog/2023/06/25/f...
This is well worth the watch. youtu.be/J5ZmLvy_Jfg?...
The Internet is Dying: AI, Bots, and The End of Human Content
YouTube video by Vanessa Wingårdh
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October 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This is well worth the watch. youtu.be/J5ZmLvy_Jfg?...
The Bangles’ debut is a contender for my #5debutalbums8084 picks. To my ears, it echoes the mid-‘60s, specifically the Beatles and Byrds, while sounding very much of its own time. I.e., it’s both retro and modern, and – simultaneously – ahead of the curve. oldgreycat.blog/2017/08/27/t...
The Essentials: The Bangles’ All Over the Place
Although it seems daft to me now, in the early and mid-‘80s I often bought albums on cassette, and cassette only. I’d love to say that, for a time, I did so due to me taking not one, but two buses …
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October 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Bangles’ debut is a contender for my #5debutalbums8084 picks. To my ears, it echoes the mid-‘60s, specifically the Beatles and Byrds, while sounding very much of its own time. I.e., it’s both retro and modern, and – simultaneously – ahead of the curve. oldgreycat.blog/2017/08/27/t...
The Long Ryders’ Native Sons, released in ‘84, is one of my #5debutalbums8084 picks. Taut rhythms, glissando guitars and close harmonies accent the goings-on, which conjure the hullabaloo of 20 years before when the Byrds first matched folk music to the Merseybeat. oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/21/t...
The Essentials: Native Sons (Expanded 3CD Edition) by the Long Ryders
Ghostlier demarcations and keener sounds glide through the grooves of Native Sons, the 1984 full-length debut from the Long Ryders, a Los Angeles band that helped build the sonic bridge that connec…
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October 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The Long Ryders’ Native Sons, released in ‘84, is one of my #5debutalbums8084 picks. Taut rhythms, glissando guitars and close harmonies accent the goings-on, which conjure the hullabaloo of 20 years before when the Byrds first matched folk music to the Merseybeat. oldgreycat.blog/2024/01/21/t...
Asking me to pick my 10 favorites of anything is a fool’s errand - I have far too many. So for XPN’s #coversongs countdown I went with the first 10 to cross my mind. This is one:
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October 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Asking me to pick my 10 favorites of anything is a fool’s errand - I have far too many. So for XPN’s #coversongs countdown I went with the first 10 to cross my mind. This is one:
youtu.be/ELuAy7wMie4?...
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Another day, another concert memory: #WesleyStace and #JulianaHatfield at the Ardmore Music Hall, where they let their bodies talk... oldgreycat.blog/2017/10/14/w...
When Worlds Collide: Juliana Hatfield at the Ardmore Music Hall, 10/12/17
Three weeks back, trumpets blared, timpani rumbled, clouds parted, and an angel came forth to announce that Philadelphia’s favorite Brit wordsmith (or, at least, one of them), Wesley Stace – …
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October 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Another day, another concert memory: #WesleyStace and #JulianaHatfield at the Ardmore Music Hall, where they let their bodies talk... oldgreycat.blog/2017/10/14/w...