A Cover of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” By Samuel Ensuque
Samual Ensuque is stuck in quarantine in Paris. He’s making good use of his time recording some covers including this beautiful take on Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” He’s been known to do “Girls Just Want to Have Fun Too.” Support musicians who can’t play due to the...
Buffalo Tom’s Bill Janovitz: Sodajerk
Buffalo Tom is my all-time favorite band. Bill Janovitz, lead singer, will be doing a Facebook livestream this afternoon (3/21) at 4:30 EDT. Please join me in watching it. I’ll be posting more video here (not all 80s as Buffalo Tom is more...
Samuel Ensuque Performs Otis Redding’s Sittin’ On the Dock of the Bay
While we’re all stuck inside I’m going to share some live music from some of my favorites and some of my friends. This is Samuel Enseque, a Paris-based performer I’ve was lucky enough to meet on a cruise ship. I’ve seen him play a whole lot across maybe four separate cruises. It’s not an 80’s song, but I’ll have some of those covers from him...
Field of Dreams and Nostalgia’s Magic Waters
By Mark Dursin The end of the Major League Baseball season got my thinking about last June, when I went back in time. When my wife had asked me what I wanted to do for Father’s Day, I was initially stumped. Then I found out that a local theater was showing Field of Dreams, to commemorate the film’s 30th anniversary, and I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I mean… spending Father’s Day watching on the big screen a classic...
The “Fire” Still Burns: A “We Didn’t Start the Fire” 30th-Anniversary Quiz
By Mark Dursin Thirty years ago, in late September 1989, Billy Joel released “We Didn’t Start the Fire”— to the delight of high school social studies teachers and the disgust (eventually) of Billy Joel himself. The song— Billy Joel’s rapid-fire recollection of world events from 1949 (the year he was born) to 1989– set the Billboard charts ablaze, finally reaching the No 1 spot in December; in fact, it ended up being Joel’s final No. 1...
