Zellweger was married Kenny Chesney for about five minutes. Julia Roberts was married Lyle for somewhat longer.

Re Campaigner, always thought it was pretty brave of Neil to say that even Richard Nixon has got soul. A lot of people would have argued with that, back in the day, but of course he was right.

Overlooked Fountains of Wayne favorite: All Kinds of Time. It defines a category of its own: Zen Football Songs.

Not to denigrate any other cut on the Layla album, but Jesus, it's hard to beat the Clapton/Allman interplay on Key to the Highway.

Agreed, "Candy's Room" is amazing, and I don't mind admitting that "Racing in the Street" brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. Same goes for "Independence Day," from The River. Another somewhat overlooked Springsteen classic is "Wild Billy's Circus Story" from The Wild, the Innocent, etc. album. I was pleased…

Great pick by Todd of Sooner or Later You'll Go Your Way, I'll Go Mine. Although it's definitely not mentioned on most Best of Dylan lists, the fact that Dylan put it at the end of the first record of Blonde on Blonde suggests he may have been especially fond of it himself.

Great album with lots of relatively unknown deep cuts, Have a Little Faith in Me among them. Ditto his Slow Turning album. Icy Blue Heart is a favorite there.

Great album with lots of relatively unknown deep cuts, Have a Little Faith in Me among them. Ditto his Slow Turning album. Icy Blue Heart is a favorite there.

Glad (and somewhat surprised) to see the love for TVC 1-5, guess I should have known I wasn't the only one to like it.

@Boxer: Second that vote on The Band's The Band album. Up on Cripple Creek and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down get most of the attention, but almost every other cut qualifies as a deep cut sleeper. Rockin Chair, Unfaithful Servant, King Harvest, Look Out, Cleveland, Whispering Pines, all great songs that would be…

JJ Cale
For lots of people anything by Cale is probably a deep cut, but most people will recognize two cuts from his Naturally album, After Midnight and Call Me the Breeze, thanks to the cover versions by Clapton and Skynyrd, respectively. Far fewer are familiar, I'd guess, with another cut from that album:…

Stones
Aftermath, "I Am Waiting." Wes Anderson used it in, I believe, Rushmore, God bless him.

@Old Guy: Yea, you're right about the timing — I thought about that after I'd posted the above. I never was good with calendars. The time I spent at hanging out at CBGBs was fall of 75 through spring 76. I moved to Brooklyn in fall of 77. (I'm an an extremely Old Guy.)

When I saw your RIP, Alex, I thought to myself, Gee, I didn't know Chilton had died — must've missed the obit. Then I see that the obit appeared TODAY! One of those surprising deaths that's also not so surprising, if you know what I mean. RIP, Alex, indeed.

Nope, never did.

angry young men
I spent a lot of time at CBGBs in the mid 70s (I was doing a masters thesis on punk rock) and heard some fabulous music there, but at home in Brooklyn I'd usually put on Howling Wind or Heat Treatment by Graham Parker, any of Elvis Costello's first three albums (which Bruce Springsteen, on Costello's…

Thanks madbetnk, always glad to see such cogent analysis.

LD: I don't think "imagined slight" is a fair characterization of the shit that goes down in love affairs (I was about to say "adolescent love affairs," but the qualifier is unnecessary). They don't call it the war between the sexes for nothing. There's plenty of genuinely bad behavior to go around on both sides, and…

My daughter was heavily into Avril Lavigne when she (my daughter) was in the appropriate age range (10 or so), so I listened to her (Avril's) music a lot, and I gotta say, compared to a lot of the pap that's been foisted on teenagers over the years, it wasn't bad at all. My daughter and I have been hoping she would…

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