Cartoons Friday!

Plus Colbert and music from John Price and Margo Price and Preservation Hall.

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With holiday weekend approaching we will start rolling out “Memorial Day” songs. So let’s open with one of the greatest, John Prine unveiling “Sam Stone” in a very early TV appearance (when still little known).

Next, Stephen’s monologue last night:

Back to more music here, just posted: the exciting singer/songwriter Margo Price paid a visit to one of my favorite spots anywhere, Preservation Hall in New Orleans, and even opened her short set, to my surprise, with a classic Kinks song off one of the greatest albums of the 1970s, “Muswell Hillbillies.” It’s “Alcohol” (then later she handles Hank’s “Jamabalaya”).

The venerable Preservation Hall boys seem to have a thing for that same Kinks album as they perform off that same lp “Complicated Life,” with a video tour of their city to boot.

From Tunes to Toons

Steve Brodner:

From the great James McMullan who long ago contributed for us at Crawdaddy:

From The New Yorker: