From Jesus to John Wayne

From Jesus to John Wayne September 8, 2006

if it's heads I'll go to Tennessee,
and tails I'll buy a drink

"Jesus Is for Losers," Steve Taylor
"Jesus Loves You, Brian Wilson," Lost Dogs
"Jesus Met the Woman at the Well," Nick Cave
"Jesus the Mexican Boy," Iron & Wine
"Jesus Walks," Kanye West
"Jesus Was a Crossmaker," The Hollies
"Jim Morrison's Grave," Steve Taylor
"Jimmy Hickey's Waltz," The Waterboys
"Jimmy Olsen's Blues," Spin Doctors
"Jitterbug Boy," Tom Waits
"Joe Astrospy," Charlie McGloughlin
"Joey," Concrete Blonde
"John Wayne," Terry Scott Taylor

This section of the alphabet, oddly, seems to consists of songs named after men and sung by men (except for one sung — to the Nth degree — by a woman named John). Two here from guilty pleasure Steve Taylor — I prefer to think of him as "former frontman for Chagall Guevara" rather than as "the director who cast Michael W. Smith in a leading role." Charlie McGloughlin podcasts from "King Bonk's Campfire."


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