Hootie & The Blowfish "Let Her Cry"

Music from Hootie & The Blowfish spun in heavy rotation on Adult Contemporary radio stations during the mid-1990s. In other words, radio stations played the crap out of everything from the band's breakthrough album Cracked Rear View. While interning for WPNT-FM in Chicago in 1996, the radio station received a fax (remember, it was the '90s!) from an office of ladies who threatened to change the station if we didn't stop playing Hootie. As you probably guessed, the station didn't stop the Hootie and those folks likely all have Spotify subscriptions today. If for whatever reason they are longing for a Hootie reunion tour, the band announced they'll reunite for one night only this summer in Atlanta.

Newton Faulkner - "Dream Catch Me"

My old Dell laptop has been dying a slow death for the past handful of years now.  Last Christmas, I made the switch to a new Dell meaning I was no longer running on the Vista platform and now had the much-ballyhooed/maligned Windows 10.   While my day-to-day computer work moved to my new Dell, I left iTunes untouched on my old laptop because, frankly, I knew that it would be a complete clusterfuck.  The straightforward directions from Apple made the process appear simple and seamless.  The reality was quite different.  After doing exactly what Apple.com suggested, my music transferred over successfully.  The problem was that only about one-third of my massive music collection made the trek.  I don't know why the other songs decided they didn't want to join the party.  So, I tried again only to have my playlists not transfer.  A third attempt yielded my entire music library making the trek including multiple copies of the majority of my songs, but again no playlists.  So, I manually deleted well over 1,000 duplicates of songs.  Next up, go in and trim the audio and recreate all my playlists.  (Why the hell haven't I just make the switch to Spotify, you're asking.  Again, I don't have a reasonable answer.)  I did discover many songs I thought I deleted years ago.  One such song came from English singer-songwriter Newton Fulkner.  Newton made the lunchtime concert circuit back in 2007, and I was graced with a free lunch, music, and a shiny new CD called Hand Built By Robots.  "Dream Catch Me" achieved success over the pond, but never really found an audience in the States.  Now, back to the clusterfuck known as iTunes...