Fiddle Battles and Bad Sax

Kirk opens the Strong Songs mailbag to tackle your questions about demonic fiddle playing, lousy sax solos, Led Zeppelin counting, fake-out intros, reverb, children's music, and more.

REFERENCED/DISCUSSED:

"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band from Million Mile Reflections, 1979
"The Eternal Triangle" by Sonny Stitt from Sonny Side Up, 1959
"The Jones Girl" by the Five Satins, 1956
"Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, 1977
"Hot For The Mountain" and "Never Too Late" by Natalie Prass from The Future and the Past, 2018
"Destination" by Nickel Creek from A Dotted Line, 2014
"My Doorbell" by the White Stripes from Get Behind Me Satan, 2005
"It's All Over Now" by the Rolling Stones, 1964
"For The Love of Money" by the O'Jays, 1974
"Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin from Led Zeppelin IV, 1971
"Gumboots" by Paul Simon from Graceland, 1986
"You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, 1964
"Baby Beluga" by Raffi from Baby Beluga, 1980
"Bananaphone" by Raffi from Bananaphone, 1994
"Here Comes the Sun" by George Harrison from Abbey Road, 1969
"Freddie Freeloader" by Miles Davis from Kind of Blue, 1959
"Searching" by Hanne Hukkelberg from Little Things, 2005

OTHER LINKS:

Gal Gracen's original Tweet about the Jones Girl sax solo: https://twitter.com/galgracen/status/1176740969988800513
A few studies about the effects of music on people in restaurants

OUTRO SOLOIST: Rob Reich

This episode's outro soloist is the wonderful bay area pianist/accordionist Rob Reich. Rob performs all over the place with a bunch of different groups, and is a total pleasure to see play. He's got a bunch of albums you can check out and contributes to an array of interesting projects (Live silent-film scores! Circus music!) and experiments. Find more at his website, http://www.robreich.com/.

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