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The CoverUp: 414 - Tell Me Something Good - The CoverUp A brilliant song that couldn’t have been anything else with the level of talent behind it, and a cover that probably took its job a little too seriously. Tell Me Something Good, originally by Rufus, c...

Outro music is Livin’ On A Prayer by Bon Jovi, and you can totally hear that thing we talk about in the episode. It’s unmistakeable.

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Split image. Top: Rufus, with Chaka Khan front and center like nature intended. Bottom: Pink, with a little penguin friend. Also like nature intended.

A brilliant song that couldn’t have been anything else with the level of talent behind it, and a cover that probably took its job a little too seriously. Tell Me Something Good, originally by Rufus, covered by Pink.
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Oooooh. I didn’t do this one this year because the last few have had so much flavor overlap year to year. Clearly, this was a terrible decision on my part.

It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill.

He would become the first known COVID case.

Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.

Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.

Public health is a social justice issue.

Oooh. That’s a good trick!

Yep! And the secret to an extra magical apple pie: one of the apples is actually a pear.

An apple pie cooling on a rack on a white speckled counter. The top crust of the pie is made of cinnamon buns. It is beautiful and will be delicious.

Hosting Thanksgiving because my dad blew up my parents’ kitchen a few months ago. (They’re fine, it was as not catastrophic as a high rise kitchen fire could possibly be.) Best part of them coming here while they live in a hotel with no kitchen? I get ALL the leftovers. Including this beauty.

Split image. Top: Kesha. Bottom: Blusher.

A huge hit at the start of a really complicated career, and a band who knows where to take their inspiration. Your Love Is My Drug, originally by Kesha, covered by Blusher.

Outro music is Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2. #musicpodcast

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Marquee of the Chicago Theater at night. Patti Smith & Her Bad Perform Horses. Sold out.

Two happy, tired, smiling women in front of a sign advertising a concert: Patti Smith and her band on the 50th anniversary perform Horses. Tonight Sold Out.

Sometimes, the thing you didn’t know you needed is an impromptu Monday night with Patti Smith and @kjinthecity.bsky.social Thank you, @theradr.bsky.social

The CoverUp: 412 - The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald - The CoverUp One of the great folk songs of the modern era captures the spirit — and the historical record — of maritime tragedy, and the cover that knows it stuff as well as the original. The Wreck of The Edmund ...

Outro music is the theme from Underdog, because how could it not be.

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Everything came together perfectly for this episode. You might call it…a perfect storm.

My DMs should be open

Still available? Potentially interested. (Also: OMG)

All right, I’m going to make coffee, but I will leave you with this: one of the most radical acts of resistance both to fascism and to Covid right now is to wear a mask. Build communities around wearing masks, etc. Get vaccinated do what you can to protect yourselves and others in your life.

It took me way too long to realize the plate did not contain salsa, avocado, chicken, and…an oatmeal raisin cookie.

The only time I have ever enjoyed Brussels sprouts: a friend’s husband roasted them in bacon grease.

7lbs, 100% the boss of me 🥰

June, a tortoiseshell cat sitting upright on a gray tweed armchair with a black and gray blanket thrown over the back. The alert and inquisitive expression on her face indicates she is very much ready to dish some dirt.

About a month ago, after 19 years & 12 days together, June finally decided she’d had enough of me. She had 20 pretty darn great years & solidified her status as The Best Cat Who Ever Catted. I love & hate that she & Charlie Brown are gone, but I know the gossip being exchanged right now is epic.

The CoverUp: 411 - (191) The Book Of Love - The CoverUp The knives come out over whether we’ve found the perfect love song as we look at another classic episode. The Book Of Love, originally by The Magnetic Fields, covered by Peter Gabriel, and by Gavin Ja...

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Split image. Top: The Magnetic Fields. Bottom left: Gavin James. Bottom right: Peter Gabriel.

The knives come out over whether we’ve found the perfect love song as we look at another classic episode. The Book Of Love, originally by The Magnetic Fields, covered by Peter Gabriel, and by Gavin James.

Outro music is In Spite Of Ourselves, by John Prine with iris DeMent.

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Every winter I’m grateful that I’m basically the same size I was when I was 12, and I can still wear the bib ski pants I got that year. And that I held onto them. I don’t ski as much as I used to, but I wear those pants for all kinds of winter-ing.

Split image. Top left: Elvis Presley. Bottom left: James Taylor. Right: Big Mama Thornton. #musicpodcast

Revisit episode 53, with 1 of the most important songs in the history of rock & roll, an incredible original, a hugely successful but also problematic cover, and … well, a great artist who stepped outside of his comfort zone. Hound Dog by Big Momma Thornton, covers: Elvis Presley & James Taylor.
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Don’t know about you, but I was not prepared for Monday. Don’t worry—there’s still time to get ready, people.

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i’m just so mad because if we absolutely had to elect an unqualified media personality to be president we should have gone with either of the guys from CAR TALK

Okay but fuck Ronald Reagan

If the stuff happening in Chicago were happening in New York City it would be on every television on earth right now

Wait, Public Enemy did a cover? Mmmhmmm. Listen to the episode because it’s awesome. Stick around for the outro, because you need to hear it. Trust me.

This was such a great episode, we brought it back. And I love that the pic looks like one of those “spot the differences” puzzles.