The Rebel Black Dot Municipal & Bonus Songs of the Day
Bob Seger, "Get Out of Denver" from the Bonus E.P. (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: The R.B.D.S.O.T.D.'s celebration of America's independence continues all month long. I love this ad hoc project & am dedicated to it, but there are also moments when another song crops up & encapsulates something specific about that particular day. Thus, a pair of Bonus! Songs of the Day about the peculiarities of the last two days.

Bonus! Mittwoch, 17 Juli
Charlie King & Len Wallace/Sharon Abreu, "Abdul Abulbul Amir" via iTunes (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: I was sitting at a fairly high-level Knights of Columbus meeting last night—please don't ask me how I permit myself to be roped into these things—when I said something, I do not recall what, that promoted a fellow sitting across the round table for me, a bigwig in the Order's state-level command structure, to say, "Ivan Skavinsky Skavar." I paused for a moment, then became to sing quietly the opening bars of "Abdul Abulbul Amir."

"The sons of the Prophet are noble and bold
And quite unaccustomed to fear,
But the bravest by far in the ranks of the Shah
Was Abdul Abulbul Amir…"

Bonus! Dienstag, 15 Juli
Denis Leary, "Asshole" from No Cure for Cancer (T.L.A.M.)

Commentary: As I was entering Tuesday night's regularly scheduled K. of C. meeting (Wednesday was my third late night in a row, all church-related), one of my brother Knights remarked, quite innocently, on the heat wave. I giggled & related briefly the context necessary to appreciate these apropos lyrics from Denis Leary's "Asshole":

"I walk around in the summertime sayin', 'How about this heat?'…"