Here’s an odd pairing for you rightnext to each other in the alphabet, the iconic soul singer Al Green and the contemporary prog rock madscientist guitar player singer GeordieGreep. Like the pairing of Glaspy andGlavor, I put them together here justso I can type their names side by side: Glaspy and Glavor, Green and Greep.OutsideContinue reading “#722: G is for Green and Greep, Al and Geordie”
Monthly Archives: March 2026
#721: G is for Grant, John
I stumbled upon a live studio recording of Elbowperforming a song called“Kindling” from the Little Fictions album with a guestvocal performance by a guynamed John Grant. Who’s this person, I wondered. And I concluded, if he’s a friendof Elbow’s, he’s a friend ofmine, and then I watched thatvideo. Whoever this JohnGrant person was, he wasContinue reading “#721: G is for Grant, John”
#720: G is for Grandaddy
Before streaming, but longafter the days of asking a record store clerk to play something on the shop systemthat one was interested in hearing, there was the new tech developmentof the in-store listeningstation, some crazy multi-discplayer with a user interfaceand a decent pair of headphones,it gave you the perusal powerof a dozen or two dozenContinue reading “#720: G is for Grandaddy”
#719: G is for Gorillaz
These “guys” have been on my radar forever but something has prevented mefrom taking the plunge. Did I listen to some stuffthat I didn’t like? Was the cartoon character motif too much for me, like if I couldn’t identify the musiciansas real people I wasn’t able to take a chance? Even after I discoveredthat thisContinue reading “#719: G is for Gorillaz”
#718: G is for Goat Girl
They call this post-punk, this all-female band from South London calling themselves Goat Girl. Not sure how I came by them, aboutfive years ago; likely, that early in my experience streaming music, I stumbledupon them, as one does, shuffling through“things you might like.” Apparently, I liked it. I liked it enough to buy thisrecord, although,Continue reading “#718: G is for Goat Girl”
#717: G is for Glaspy and Glavor, Margaret and Hannah
It sounds good to say their namestogether, for one, and for another, they’re both extraordinarily talented singer-songwriters and equally mean guitarists, and look at them there, right next to each other in the alphabet,as if it was just meant to be. The first song on Margaret Glaspy’s Echo the Diamond is a rocker called“Act Natural.”Continue reading “#717: G is for Glaspy and Glavor, Margaret and Hannah”
#716: G is for Gizmodrome
Okay. Super group time, it is, again. I don’t know whose brainchild this was, but Gizmodrome brings together Mark King, the bass player from Level 42, Adrian Belew, from King Crimson, Zappa,Talking Heads, Laurie Anderson, et al.(his fourth or fifth appearance now in my record collection, A to G), Vittorio Cosma, a renowned Italianjazz pianist,Continue reading “#716: G is for Gizmodrome”
#715: G is for Gibbard, Ben
Every once in awhileas The Flaming Lips havedone now a couple times, a musician or a banddecides to do a song by songcover of one of their favoritealbums. I’ve had fantasies ofdoing it myself, a fantasy thatwill likely go unrealized. Dare I confess? I’d like to do a songby song cover of my favorite albumContinue reading “#715: G is for Gibbard, Ben”
#714: G is for Gang of Four
Maybe their only hit songcomes from the Songs of the Freealbum and has the rousing chorussung by the new bass player, Sara Lee, and a few other female voices, “I Love a Man in a Uniform,” while lead singer Jon King laments in the versesabout how girls aren’t paying him proper attention and so decides to jointhe armed forces. It’sContinue reading “#714: G is for Gang of Four”
#713: G is for Gabriel, Peter
It took me years after hearinghis music for the first time and becoming a fan to figure out that Peter Gabriel was the firstlead singer of Genesis! In this regard, I was born yesterday, or living under a rock. It was 1986, and I think So was my first, and then I went backwards almostallContinue reading “#713: G is for Gabriel, Peter”
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