Songs for Valentine's Day

A personal, eclectic, mix, with Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, Brandi Carlile, Bob Marley, Hank Williams, Diana Krall, Louis Armstrong, Lucinda Williams, Jason Isbell and more.

Did not put a great deal of thought into this but presumably these are all fine specimens. Will kick off with the usual cartoons. Enjoy, then subscribe, it’s still free! And don’t forget you can now view—through tomorrow—my award-winning 2021 film Atomic Cover-up for free here at its 16th and current festival, third from the top, and then please vote for the Audience Award, thanks.

Louis Armstrong, “Ain’t Misbehavin”

Hank Williams, live, “Hey Good Lookin’” (with June Carter cameo)

Sam Cooke, “That’s Where It’s At”

Dylan, “From a Buick 6,” alternate version

Richard and Linda Thompson, live, “Dimming of the Day”

Diane Krall, live, “A Case of You”

Lucinda Williams, live, “Right in Time”

Jason Isbell, live, with Amanda Shires, “Cover Me Up”

Brandi Carlile, “You and Me on the Rock”

Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Stir It Up”

Sandy Denny, “At End of the Day,” alternate version

Greg Mitchell is the author of a dozen books, including the bestseller The Tunnels (on escapes under the Berlin Wall), the current The Beginning or the End (on MGM’s wild atomic bomb movie), and The Campaign of the Century (on Upton Sinclair’s left-wing race for governor of California), which was recently picked by the Wall St. Journal as one of five greatest books ever about an election. His new film, Atomic Cover-up, just had its world premiere and is drawing extraordinary acclaim. For nearly all of the 1970s he was the #2 editor at the legendary Crawdaddy. Later he served as longtime editor of Editor & Publisher magazine. He recently co-produced a film about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.