Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 8-14-23

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The Toot Uncommons, Steve Martin’s backing band on “this song”King Tut,” usually performed under the name The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. That group’s John McEuen taught Martin how to play the banjo. “King Tut” is included on Martin’s album A Wild and Crazy Guy, which won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album of 1979. In 2010 Martin won another Grammy Award, this one in the category Best Bluegrass Album for his album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo, which showcased his banjo-playing skills. The album was produced by John McEuen.

Steve Martin was born on this date in 1945. He inspired today’s playlist.

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Your (Almost) Daily Playlist: 10-22-22

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Today’s playlist celebrates the October 22 birthdays of Bobby Fuller, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, The Rascals’ Eddie Brigati, Dead Boys’ Stiv Bators, Shelby Lynne, Shaggy, Mountain’s Leslie West, Plan B, Annette Funicello, Pratt & McClain’s Truett Pratt, Baby Keem, Paul Lekakis, The Four Preps’ Bruce Belland, John Wesley Harding, and Franz Liszt; and the October 23 birthdays of Miguel, The Dixie Cups’ Barbara Ann Hawkins, Charlie Foxx, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and The Raindrops’ Ellie Greenwich.

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A Nirvana Playlist

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Kurt Cobain (b. February 20, 2967) was dating Tobi Vail of the band Bikini Kill. Vail wore Teen Spirit perfume. One drunken night Kurt’s friend and Vail’s bandmate Kathleen Hanna wrote “Kurt smells like teen spirit” on Kurt’s bedroom wall. Kurt wasn’t aware of the perfume; he thought Hanna was commenting on the revolutionary spirit of youth. You know what happened next.

Here are 29 of Nirvana’s best, plus a bonus cut inspired by the group’s success.

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