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If you don’t have Otis Redding’s live recordings from London and Paris, you need to get them. Every song is bonkers with energy start to finish. This cover meets or possibly exceeds the Beatles original.

Grainy black-and-white, but you get to see 1969 Dick Clark introduce an early music video of sorts.

Campy enough house music that it’s not for everybody. But surely the inclusion of elements of Parliament-Funkadelic and A Tribe Called Quest broadens the appeal.

I usually don’t go as far back as somebody who was with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers (and Cream), but here you go:

He’s a Tennessee boy, you know.

This is a reader-submitted entry (thanks, Dan!). The copyright may force you to click on the link to go watch it directly on YouTube. It’s worth it. I saw Susan Tedeschi at a B.B.. King Blues Festival. We had to leave early, and it was indeed a thrill to hear B.B. coax out “The thrill is gone …” as we …

I mentioned before a seminal moment in England where I learned about Supergrass. But I’ve never featured them on #HornSectionsMakeRockBetter. This is from their second album. Its bonus promotional disc has my favorite song they ever did, but alas! It has no horns.

Well how about some Ed Sullivan? Here are the Rascals, AKA the Young Rascals. Keep watching for the next video, “Groovin’.”

You may know twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid from “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” but this song from their first album is even more genius. My favorite line: “Then I saw you on the streetYou looked happy, that’s a factI’m impressed – it’s a hell of an act”

I’m not sure about the video here, but I guess it’s better than looking at a fixed image of album art. In college I spent a summer in Washington, D.C. I’d like to thank my host family for introducing me to Cockburn and taking me to see him live. Phil and Gail, I miss you!