George Harrison's "Taxman" Revisited

Happy returns from George Harrison, Junior Parker, The Beatles and Ry Cooder

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Hooray, it’s another national Record Store Day. Here is the list of exclusive releases today, with the usual wide range: Bowie, Taylor, Emmylou, live sets from Joni, Elvis Costello and Ry Cooder, and much, much more.

On the other hand, Bill Maher reaches a new level of indignity, after he meets Trump and sucks up last night: "A crazy person doesn’t live in the White House. A person who plays a crazy person on TV a lot lives there, which I know is fucked up. It’s just not as fucked up as I thought it was…..I'm just taking it as a positive that this person exists, because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I swear to God, absent, at least on this night with this guy."

Contrast that with this yesterday:

Maine Governor, Staring Down Trump, Says She Is Unfazed by ‘Loud Men’

Also responding correctly to Trump, check out this chart:

Final weekend to file your taxes, folks, so just a few reminders. This rarity surfaced awhile back, George Harrison tribute to his “Taxman” in an MTV rehearsal:

A Beatles alternate take with some wild background singing:

Fantastic 1970 cover of the song by soul great Junior Parker, don’t miss this:

And Ry Cooder with usual genius guitar work in 1972 updated olde classic “Taxes on the Farmer Feed Us All”:

From Tunes to Toons

Bill Bramhall turns Chaplinesque: