Sweetheart Like You

What's a sweetheart like you

Doing in a dump like this?

Asks Chrissie Hynde in her warm and enveloping voice.  Recorded in 2020.  Composed by Bob Dylan and recorded on his 1983 album Infidels.

Back On The Chain Gang

 I found a picture of you/those were the happiest days of my life

Chrissie Hynde and some Pretenders playing a socially distanced Back On The Chain Gang for BBC2 Live this summer.

Talk Of The Town

One of the finest songs from the Pretenders, featuring the incomparable vocals of Chrissie Hynde.   This 1980 video is of the original band lineup.  In 1982 lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died from cocaine abuse. The same year bassist Pete Farndon was fired by the other band members for his out of control drug habits and he died shortly thereafter of an overdose.  Chrissie, along with drummer Martin Chambers, goes on.

I'll Stand By You

And I do believe she would.  Pretenders live from the late 1990s featuring Chrissie Hynde with the mascara running down her face.

Like In The Movies

. . . this isn't gonna end like in the movies

From Chrissie Hynde's 2014 solo album.

Boots Of Chinese Plastic

And by the way you look fantastic
In your boots of Chinese plastic

Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders still rockin' in 2010.

Favorite Songs Of 2014

This blog's three favorite songs released in 2014.  You'll note that two of the three artists have been around for awhile so THC is looking for recommendations on songs and artists who started a little more recently.

Chrissie Hynde released her first solo album, Stockholm, this summer and it contains several strong tunes.  My favorite is Like In The Movies.
Since we're talking about Chrissie, this gives THC an excuse to link his three favorite Pretenders songs; Night In My Veins (a terrific live version), Talk Of The Town and Middle Of The Road.

Next up is a new band, 7Horse, and Carousel Bar which sounds like what would happen if you had a band with Keith Richards on guitar and Warren Zevon on vocals.  Not likely to happen since Warren is hanging out with Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner.
Finally it's the Tedeschi Trucks Band with Do I Look Worried.
Since THC didn't do this last year, he's gonna add his 2013 favorite new song Matmos by Amplifier.  To really appreciate this you need to hear it on a first-rate sound system.  It's an astonishing aural experience.

Night In My Veins

Enjoy New Year's Eve

2000 Miles

For everyone who has traveled, is traveling, or wants to travel, home.  From the Pretenders.