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Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1977

Motown · Universal Music Group

Sir Duke

Motown, under Universal. He names the dead who taught him, and the band proves he listened.

Tamla released it. Universal holds Motown. Wonder stops the party long enough to say Ellington, Basie, Ella. Then the band shows the debt in the playing.

A house that only plays the new thing should hear this and ask who taught the people they like.

The eight

  1. Industry

    9/10

    The horns are a lesson and a joy at once.

  2. Household

    4/10

    No kitchen. A lineage of players.

  3. Piety

    6/10

    Thanks, aimed at elders.

  4. Courage

    5/10

    He puts his own name under theirs.

  5. Republic

    5/10

    A public inheritance.

  6. Temperance

    7/10

    Celebration with a point.

  7. Truth

    8/10

    He says who he owes.

  8. Stewardship

    9/10

    A song about handing a craft on, by doing it.

Live historicallyName one player this house owes, and play them next.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1975

Columbia · Sony Music Entertainment

Born to Run

Columbia, under Sony. The highway is an escape. The reason is a life together.

Columbia released it. Sony owns Columbia. The song is not only a car. It is a man who has looked at the work on offer and decided he will not spend Wendy on it. The romance is real. So is the risk that 'the night' becomes the whole plan.

Play it for someone about to take a smaller life out of fear. Then ask where they will actually live when the highway ends.

The eight

  1. Industry

    9/10

    A wall of players, arranged like a last chance. That is labor.

  2. Household

    7/10

    Wendy, named. He wants her in the passenger seat, not as a night.

  3. Piety

    4/10

    The town is a trap. The sacred thing is getting out.

  4. Courage

    8/10

    He is scared and he says go.

  5. Republic

    6/10

    A dying town, a job that will not save them. He tells the truth about it.

  6. Temperance

    5/10

    The night is huge. It is aimed at a future, not a blackout.

  7. Truth

    7/10

    He does not pretend the street is fine.

  8. Stewardship

    7/10

    A young vow. Worth hearing before a person settles for less.

Live historicallyOne play, loud, then the question: if you run, who is in the car, and what town are you building at the end of it?

Annie