Cartoons Saturday!

Now WE put Trump in the dumpster. Plus new music from Brandi Carlile and the Costello original that ended up on Colbert.

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As it’s a holiday weekend, mainly music and cartoons today, after we dispose of this if you missed it yesterday:

We briefly mentioned yesterday: That unfamiliar number “Jump Up” in the finale of the finale of Colbert’s final show dates back to 1977 and a demo recorded by Elvis Costello before his first rocking album made him famous. Now here it is from back then after it was finally released:

Brandi Carlile released a new single yesterday. It coincides with the launch of a partnership between Carlile and the National Park Foundation—which she calls the nation’s most trusted way for people to support national parks—to raise critical funds to preserve and protect them. Fine song written with Aaron Dessner.

I’ve posted one or two things in the past from the popular You Tube/podcast by the young fellow who goes by Track Star in which he plays tunes for well-known musicians (e.g. Lucinda Williams) and others (such as Ken Burns) and asks them to ID them and talk about them. An especially good one this week with the great Taj Mahal. Watch and you may learn a lot of musical history (plus a nice shoutout to his old friend and collaborator Ry Cooder).

From Tunes to Toons

Bramhall:

KAL:

Luckovich:

Granlund:

Goris:

Brodner:

de Adder:

Kamensky:

Photo Finish

“Harris Hawk, Goshen, N.Y.”