Sunday Morning Video: John Mellencamp Live By Request

After I wrote my last convention wrap up post with its ode to liberal patriotism, I had Pink Houses in my head for days. Hence this 2004 program from A&E before they devoted their programming to shit like Duck Dynasty. Anyway, here’s John Mellencamp posing the eternal question: “Ain’t that America?” It’s the last numbah. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: John Mellencamp Live By Request

Sunday Morning Video: Bad Company Live

It’s guilty pleasure time here at First Draft. I’ve always had a soft spot for Bad Company who are technically adept musicians playing stripped-down blues rock. Besides, nobody tosses a mic stand as well as Paul Rodgers. And the man can sing a little. This is a 2008 show from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. That tour marked the return of lead guitarist Mick Ralphs. There’s no word as to whether the band had any dealings with Florida Man: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Bad Company Live

Sunday Morning Video: The Radio Priest

The hills are alive with the sound of demagoguery in 2016. Rabble rousing populism is as old as the republic as are demagogues who take equally from the far left and far right. 1930’s radio priest Father Charles Coughlin was such a man. He was for FDR before he was against him. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Radio Priest