Kirk opens the Strong Songs mailbag to tackle your questions about demonic fiddle playing, lousy sax solos, Led Zeppelin counting, fake-out intros, reverb, children's music, and more.

REFERENCED/DISCUSSED:

• "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band from Million Mile Reflections, 1979
• "The Eternal Triangle" by Sonny Stitt from Sonny Side Up, 1959
• "The Jones Girl" by the Five Satins, 1956
• "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, 1977
• "Hot For The Mountain" and "Never Too Late" by Natalie Prass from The Future and the Past, 2018
• "Destination" by Nickel Creek from A Dotted Line, 2014
• "My Doorbell" by the White Stripes from Get Behind Me Satan, 2005
• "It's All Over Now" by the Rolling Stones, 1964
• "For The Love of Money" by the O'Jays, 1974
• "Black Dog" by Led Zeppelin from Led Zeppelin IV, 1971
• "Gumboots" by Paul Simon from Graceland, 1986
• "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, 1964
• "Baby Beluga" by Raffi from Baby Beluga, 1980
• "Bananaphone" by Raffi from Bananaphone, 1994
• "Here Comes the Sun" by George Harrison from Abbey Road, 1969
• "Freddie Freeloader" by Miles Davis from Kind of Blue, 1959
• "Searching" by Hanne Hukkelberg from Little Things, 2005

OTHER LINKS:

• Gal Gracen's original Tweet about the Jones Girl sax solo: https://twitter.com/galgracen/status/1176740969988800513
• A few studies about the effects of music on people in restaurants

OUTRO SOLOIST: Rob Reich

This episode's outro soloist is the wonderful bay area pianist/accordionist Rob Reich. Rob performs all over the place with a bunch of different groups, and is a total pleasure to see play. He's got a bunch of albums you can check out and contributes to an array of interesting projects (Live silent-film scores! Circus music!) and experiments. Find more at his website, http://www.robreich.com/.

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OCTOBER 2019 WHOLE-NOTE PATRONS

andrew walters - CALEB ROTACH - Chad Barnard - Dan Apczynski - Dave Florey - Glenn - Jared Norris - Mark Schechter - Merlin Mann

OCTOBER 2019 HALF-NOTE PATRONS

Alex Singer - Alexander Polson - Andre Bremer - Andrew Baker - Andrew Lee - Arjun Sharma - Bill Thornton - Brett Douville - Brian Amoebas - Brooke Wilford - Chas Lednicky - Chris Brown - Cyrus N. White - Dominik Schmitt - Earl Lozada - Eero Wahlstedt - Elliot Jay O'Neill - Emily Williams - FlSHBONES - Forrest Chang - Jaehoon Jeong - James Johnson - Jasmine Fellows - Jeffrey Olson - John and Sharon Stenglein - Jon O'Keefe - joujou - Juan Carlos Montemayor Elosua - Jules Bailey - Justin Liew - Justin McElroy - Kate Albury - Kevin Morrell - Kevin Pennyfeather - Matt Gaskell - Max Schechter - Melanie Stivers - Michael Blackwell - Miriam Juskowicz - Mueller - Nate from Kalamazoo - Nicholas Schechter - Richard Toller - samuel gardner - Shane DeLeon - Shaun Wiese - SP - Tim - Tom Clewer - Tom Lauer

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