Deborah Woodell
@debwnj.bsky.social
Journalist. Retired from Philadelphia Daily News/Inquirer. Senior adjunct professor at Rowan University. The shredding in bluegrass and metal are not that far apart.
A few weeks ago, I dove into the rabbit hole of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" in search of covers by women, and I learned Ray Stevens, in 1969, predated the Kristofferson version by a year or so. He's more than "Guitarzan." Give it up for Ray!
#XPNcountdown #RayStevens
#XPNcountdown #RayStevens
December 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A few weeks ago, I dove into the rabbit hole of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" in search of covers by women, and I learned Ray Stevens, in 1969, predated the Kristofferson version by a year or so. He's more than "Guitarzan." Give it up for Ray!
#XPNcountdown #RayStevens
#XPNcountdown #RayStevens
It's easy to overlook, but Ray Stevens ("Guitarzan" guy) had the first recorded version of "Sunday Morning Coming Down," in 1969. Kristofferson was late to the game. Probably my only quibble with the countdown.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_...
#XPNCountdown
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_...
#XPNCountdown
December 12, 2025 at 1:20 AM
It's easy to overlook, but Ray Stevens ("Guitarzan" guy) had the first recorded version of "Sunday Morning Coming Down," in 1969. Kristofferson was late to the game. Probably my only quibble with the countdown.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_...
#XPNCountdown
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_...
#XPNCountdown
Reposted by Deborah Woodell
Bluegrass is represented! Yeah! #XPNCountdown
December 8, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Bluegrass is represented! Yeah! #XPNCountdown
For someone whose age begins with a 7, I find it a great brain game to figure out the song before I learn it via the playlist or the radio host: "I *know* that song!"
#XPNCountdown.
#XPNCountdown.
December 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
For someone whose age begins with a 7, I find it a great brain game to figure out the song before I learn it via the playlist or the radio host: "I *know* that song!"
#XPNCountdown.
#XPNCountdown.
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
From my fingertips to John Batiste's scroll ... I can surely imagine him covering this song.
Let's put it out in the universe.
From my fingertips to John Batiste's scroll ... I can surely imagine him covering this song.
Let's put it out in the universe.
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
From my fingertips to John Batiste's scroll ... I can surely imagine him covering this song.
Let's put it out in the universe.
From my fingertips to John Batiste's scroll ... I can surely imagine him covering this song.
Let's put it out in the universe.
@somevelvetblog.bsky.social
"And when he died, all he left us was alone." OMG. Probably in my top 20 lines ever.
"And when he died, all he left us was alone." OMG. Probably in my top 20 lines ever.
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
@somevelvetblog.bsky.social
"And when he died, all he left us was alone." OMG. Probably in my top 20 lines ever.
"And when he died, all he left us was alone." OMG. Probably in my top 20 lines ever.
Yo, @kimrichey.bsky.social ! I stopped dead in my tracks! Haven't heard @wxpnfm.bsky.social play you in faaaar toooo lonnnng. Yay for today!
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Yo, @kimrichey.bsky.social ! I stopped dead in my tracks! Haven't heard @wxpnfm.bsky.social play you in faaaar toooo lonnnng. Yay for today!
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Faces. Modern English. You could do a whole #FridayMorningMixtape of songs used in commercials. I think Jardiance might be the only original song in ads anymore, haha!
Faces. Modern English. You could do a whole #FridayMorningMixtape of songs used in commercials. I think Jardiance might be the only original song in ads anymore, haha!
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Faces. Modern English. You could do a whole #FridayMorningMixtape of songs used in commercials. I think Jardiance might be the only original song in ads anymore, haha!
Faces. Modern English. You could do a whole #FridayMorningMixtape of songs used in commercials. I think Jardiance might be the only original song in ads anymore, haha!
September 6, 2025 at 2:57 PM
@jmcgnn.bsky.social
Every time I hear Portishead, I think of the TV show "La Femme Nikita," yet, interestingly, their music was never played on that show.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_o...
Every time I hear Portishead, I think of the TV show "La Femme Nikita," yet, interestingly, their music was never played on that show.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_o...
Music of La Femme Nikita - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
@jmcgnn.bsky.social
Every time I hear Portishead, I think of the TV show "La Femme Nikita," yet, interestingly, their music was never played on that show.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_o...
Every time I hear Portishead, I think of the TV show "La Femme Nikita," yet, interestingly, their music was never played on that show.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_o...
If there's one song that I'm surprised that @wxpnfm.bsky.social has never played, it's probably "Diamonds" by @johnnyswim.bsky.social. They have a few plays in the teens, but this song is special!
share.google/DWkrAvzn20OX...
share.google/DWkrAvzn20OX...
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August 24, 2025 at 12:12 AM
If there's one song that I'm surprised that @wxpnfm.bsky.social has never played, it's probably "Diamonds" by @johnnyswim.bsky.social. They have a few plays in the teens, but this song is special!
share.google/DWkrAvzn20OX...
share.google/DWkrAvzn20OX...
Six degrees of @wxpnfm.bsky.social and @worldcafe.bsky.social ... If only Dan could talk with his friend Connor, who could talk to his pal Jason, who could talk to his bro Travis, who could talk to his sweetie Taylor, who could talk to @rahrahraina.bsky.social or @kallao.bsky.social ...
August 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Six degrees of @wxpnfm.bsky.social and @worldcafe.bsky.social ... If only Dan could talk with his friend Connor, who could talk to his pal Jason, who could talk to his bro Travis, who could talk to his sweetie Taylor, who could talk to @rahrahraina.bsky.social or @kallao.bsky.social ...
In honor of #TBTXPN and the classics on @wxpnfm.bsky.social, here's today's wardrobe. #GreyEyeGlances. More, please.
August 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
In honor of #TBTXPN and the classics on @wxpnfm.bsky.social, here's today's wardrobe. #GreyEyeGlances. More, please.
@somevelvetblog.bsky.social
OMG! This is such an underrated album! Thanks for playing something from it. Don't like Travis Tritt's politics, but he's phenomenal with Patti Labelle.
OMG! This is such an underrated album! Thanks for playing something from it. Don't like Travis Tritt's politics, but he's phenomenal with Patti Labelle.
August 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
@somevelvetblog.bsky.social
OMG! This is such an underrated album! Thanks for playing something from it. Don't like Travis Tritt's politics, but he's phenomenal with Patti Labelle.
OMG! This is such an underrated album! Thanks for playing something from it. Don't like Travis Tritt's politics, but he's phenomenal with Patti Labelle.
Reposted by Deborah Woodell
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Don't fear the long song, lol! Remember when "Purple Rain" came to your rescue when the computers went down?
Don't fear the long song, lol! Remember when "Purple Rain" came to your rescue when the computers went down?
August 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Don't fear the long song, lol! Remember when "Purple Rain" came to your rescue when the computers went down?
Don't fear the long song, lol! Remember when "Purple Rain" came to your rescue when the computers went down?
@wxpnfm.bsky.social
Tell Kristen she willed it into existence!
Tell Kristen she willed it into existence!
July 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
@wxpnfm.bsky.social
Tell Kristen she willed it into existence!
Tell Kristen she willed it into existence!
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Maybe it's my poison ivy-fueled haze, but how about a mixtape on infidelity? A friend jokes he should have guessed his marriage might not last when the last song at the reception was "Me and Mrs. Jones."
"One Way Out." "It's My Party." "If Loving You Is Wrong..."
Maybe it's my poison ivy-fueled haze, but how about a mixtape on infidelity? A friend jokes he should have guessed his marriage might not last when the last song at the reception was "Me and Mrs. Jones."
"One Way Out." "It's My Party." "If Loving You Is Wrong..."
July 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Maybe it's my poison ivy-fueled haze, but how about a mixtape on infidelity? A friend jokes he should have guessed his marriage might not last when the last song at the reception was "Me and Mrs. Jones."
"One Way Out." "It's My Party." "If Loving You Is Wrong..."
Maybe it's my poison ivy-fueled haze, but how about a mixtape on infidelity? A friend jokes he should have guessed his marriage might not last when the last song at the reception was "Me and Mrs. Jones."
"One Way Out." "It's My Party." "If Loving You Is Wrong..."
Huh, @jmcgnn.bsky.social says this might be the quintessential song of the Seventies
July 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Huh, @jmcgnn.bsky.social says this might be the quintessential song of the Seventies
@kallao.bsky.social
This Ludovico Einaudi interview was so good! For what it's worth, guitarist Jason Vieaux is with Curtis and presumably in Philly. He'd be interesting, too, I think. And he does a pretty cool Tears for Fears.
youtu.be/tLcZTt82-38?...
This Ludovico Einaudi interview was so good! For what it's worth, guitarist Jason Vieaux is with Curtis and presumably in Philly. He'd be interesting, too, I think. And he does a pretty cool Tears for Fears.
youtu.be/tLcZTt82-38?...
Jason Vieaux & Julien Labro - Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears
YouTube video by JulienLabro
youtu.be
June 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
@kallao.bsky.social
This Ludovico Einaudi interview was so good! For what it's worth, guitarist Jason Vieaux is with Curtis and presumably in Philly. He'd be interesting, too, I think. And he does a pretty cool Tears for Fears.
youtu.be/tLcZTt82-38?...
This Ludovico Einaudi interview was so good! For what it's worth, guitarist Jason Vieaux is with Curtis and presumably in Philly. He'd be interesting, too, I think. And he does a pretty cool Tears for Fears.
youtu.be/tLcZTt82-38?...
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Chuck Mangione's "Land of Make Believe" gives me chills...or maybe the Hammonton High School band version featuring Bob, lol!
Chuck Mangione's "Land of Make Believe" gives me chills...or maybe the Hammonton High School band version featuring Bob, lol!
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
@kristenkurtis.bsky.social
Chuck Mangione's "Land of Make Believe" gives me chills...or maybe the Hammonton High School band version featuring Bob, lol!
Chuck Mangione's "Land of Make Believe" gives me chills...or maybe the Hammonton High School band version featuring Bob, lol!
I'm curious: How many instrumental performers appeared on SNL? I remember Miles Davis, but I guess there were others?
@wxpnfm.bsky.social #TBTXPN
@wxpnfm.bsky.social #TBTXPN
June 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm curious: How many instrumental performers appeared on SNL? I remember Miles Davis, but I guess there were others?
@wxpnfm.bsky.social #TBTXPN
@wxpnfm.bsky.social #TBTXPN
With all due props to @brandicarlile.bsky.social, the Steve & Edie version is far superior!
June 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
With all due props to @brandicarlile.bsky.social, the Steve & Edie version is far superior!