Music Monday: Thomas Rhett and “Die a Happy Man” (2015)

| February 2, 2026

This week’s Music Monday song comes from my country music side of music listening. The song is “Die a Happy Man” and was country pop song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Thomas Rhett.  It was released on September 28, 2015, it served as the second single from his second studio album, Tangled Up. The […]

Music Monday: Luke Combs and “When It Rains, It Pours”

| June 9, 2025

Let’s go in the country music direction for this week’s Music Monday. I heard a song by Luke Combs called “When It Rains, It Pours” about a month ago and sent myself an email since it immediately appealed to me. There’s not much in the song about Morton Salt, but it did trigger the memory. […]

Music Monday: Alabama and “Forty Hour Week (For a Livin’)”

| July 1, 2024

It is hard to believe that the country music band “Wild Country” from Fort Payne, Alabama, now known as “Alabama” has been around since 1969? I was surprised. The band’s popularity exploded in the late 1970s and early 1980s after 2 hit songs in 1977 and a record deal with RCA Records (about the time […]

The passing of Toby Keith makes for a sad Music Monday

| February 12, 2024

The passing of a great American patriot and country music singer/songwriter Toby Keith Covel last week from stomach cancer at age 62 was depressing. Surprisingly I have not posted about Toby Keith in the past on the blog or for Music Monday, but really should have considering his impressive career and devotion our military and […]

Music Monday: Slipping in an automotive-triggered 1990s country music song with “Backroads” by Ricky Van Shelton

| May 16, 2022

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Music Monday: Not my taste, but definitely Bluegrass talent

| April 19, 2021

This past weekend I saw what looked like an amateur musician in a college dorm or apartment video roll across my Twitter feed and thought, “this young man has talent.” It reminded me of a post from 2014 when Jacob Tolliver sat down at a piano in a Portsmouth, Ohio hardware store. This kind of […]

Desultory - des-uhl-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee

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  2. digressing from or unconnected with the main subject; random: a desultory remark.
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