Music Friday: "Linus and Lucy"

I'm thinking about getting a t-shirt from TeePublic that features two dancers from the Charlie Brown Christmas special as a concert-like t-shirt for Vince Guaraldi. 

The tune featured today is one of my favorite songs of all time. 

Music Friday: "Great Pumpkin Waltz"

I got busy yesterday, forgot about posting this, and then remembered to post later in the day. Then I went to a high school football game. I got home, watched some TV, and feel asleep on the couch. 

So I'm late. 

I was listening to an album from the Vince Guaraldi Trio yesterday, and this was one of the songs on the album. 

As a kid, I loved Peanuts. I would check out those hardbound versions of the comics all the time when I was in grade school. Snoopy was my hero even though sometimes I felt like Charlie Brown. 

But as Charlie Brown specials go, the Halloween one was probably my least favorite because I thought the Great Pumpkin premise was stupid. 

But it has a good song associated it. So here it is. 

The Great Pumpkin reminds me of the numerous times I've gone with the Nasty family to buy a bunch of pumpkins, spending a small fortune on gourds. 

Music Friday: "Linus and Lucy," "Calling Dr. Funk," & "On Green Dolphin Street"

Tuesday was a big day for new releases.

Take a gander at the new albums from these artists that came out this week:

• Bob Dylan, Tempest
• Dave Matthews Band, Away From The World
• The Avett Brothers, The Carpenter
• Calexico, Algiers
• Patterson Hood, Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance

And heck, next week there will be new albums out from Ben Folds Five, Ryan Bingham, and Band of Horses. 

Calexico's album is excellent, The Avett Brothers album is good, and I haven't gotten the Hood release yet.

I don't know if I'll get Dylan's new album. People love to say he's a genius. Other people contend he's overrated. Both might be right, but I lean toward the latter group. As for the new DMB album, we'll see. 

But I downloaded The Definitive Vince Guaraldi for cheap ($5.99 for 31 songs) yesterday, and I'm mad at myself for not having any of his stuff before now. 

Peanuts fans out there will recognize this first song below, but I've provided two other compositions for your enjoyment.