So, what have you been listening to lately?

[Pilgrim]

This really gets in my head and keeps replaying.  Very catchy tune...

[uwe]

I can relate. The Talking Heads had a pleasant nerdy catchiness.

Never mind tnat Tina's quarter notes in the intro weren't quite Michael's in precision ...



But then he played those with his forehead of course!

[uwe]

And I used to think that people from Bakersfield "always have the Laaawd by their side". Apparently not, you can't even trust the Stones anymore.

[Dave W]

This really gets in my head and keeps replaying.  Very catchy tune...

Very catchy indeed.

[uwe]

Not so much Talking Heads as Singing Poultry - at the time, it took me a while to tell the two versions apart, I first thought both were from the Talking Heads!  But knowing David Byrne (or rather not knowing him), I'm not sure he thought the Fools' version all that funny.

Byrne's legendary intro version with the boom box on Stop Making Sense was of course great minimalist art. And rehearsed to perfection, nerdy stops and all.

[Pilgrim]

My wife and I went to see The Fabelmans on New Years' eve.  It's one of those pictures that surprises you because there's a lot more in it than you expect - like Secondhand Lions or October Sky.

At the end, the boy (Spielberg as a youth) has an "audience" with John Ford, one of the shining star directors of Hollywood.  I couldn't place the actor playing Ford, but there was something familiar about him.  I was taken aback watching the credits to see that it was David Byrne!

[westen44]

David Byrne can totally get on my nerves.  However, I like this song quite a lot.  It's superb, IMO.

[Dave W]

Ponty Bone was a part of the 70s-80s Lubbock scene that included Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore. He died of a rare degenerative disease in 2018.

[uwe]

Do I hear a Zydeco influence?

[morrow]

[uwe]

Reminds me of ...

[uwe]

The little guy from Minnesota channeling his inner Little Richard ...

[Dave W]

Do I hear a Zydeco influence?

Definitely.

[Dave W]

Listening to the whole album right now, hard to believe it's over 50 years old now,

[westen44]

Eva Under Fire is a band from Detroit which is beginning to get a little attention.  Eva is the stage name of the lead singer.  Her real name is Amanda (named after the Boston song.)  She has an M.A. in psychology and works as a therapist in the day.  As the band has become more successful, she seems to be doing less of that as she spends more time with her band. 

They have a new album which I listened to for the first time today.  Comatose is my favorite, but for some reason they didn't do a video of it, only a video with lyrics.  They don't do many covers, but evidently "Separate Ways" is a crowd favorite, although it isn't on the new album.  The song the lead singer Eva says is the most personal is Heroin(e) because both of her parents were heroin addicts.

In a sense, it might seem like what's being done with this Eva Under Fire music is a form of music therapy.  But I've had a music therapist friend for a long time.  To me this is something clearly different.  It's more like a psychotherapist familiar with rock taking her work to the field, IMO.