Clever

Marshall Crenshaw kind of fell off my radar during the past decade or two, then I ran across some cheap and decent copies of his first two lps in a store last week.  I’d forgotten how strong those albums are.  I’ve always liked how this song bridges the double verses with a false start of the chorus.  A clever tactic.  I’m sure other songs have done it, but for some reason I’m drawing a blank trying to think of one.

So This Is Cool

Learned this past weekend on a trip visiting my 81-year-old aunt that my grandmother’s cousin (my first cousin, twice removed) was a songwriter in California. And that I’m named for him, by way of my dad. (Fucked up spelling and all.) Here’s one of his tunes that Bing Crosby recorded.

And here’s another that could be fun to work up as a rocker.