Tricky Counting, Straight Saxes & Transposing Horns

<p>On this Strong Songs mailbag episode, Kirk answers your most pressing questions on subjects ranging from horn transposition, to why audiences have a hard time clapping on 2 and 4, to what the heck that sound is on the bridge to "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic."</p> <p><strong>DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE:</strong></p> <ul> <li>“Thunderstruck” by AC/DC from <em>The Razors Edge</em>, 1990</li> <li>“Roll” by Fatai from Undone - EP, 2015</li> <li>“Take My Breath Away” by Berlin from <em>Count Three & Pray</em>, 1986</li> <li>“We Will Rock You” by Queen from <em>News Of The World</em>, 1977</li> <li>‘Every Time We Say Goodbye” by Cole Porter, sung by Ella Fitzgerald</li> <li>“Horsepower” by Justice from <em>Audio, Video, Disco</em>, 2011</li> <li>“Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen as sung by Rufus Wainwright</li> <li>“Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” by Sting and the Police from <em>Ghost in the Machine</em>, 1981</li> <li>“You Don’t Know What Love Is” as played by Sonny Rollins from <em>Saxophone Colossus</em>, 1956</li> <li>“Desafinado” by Antonio Carlos Jobim feat. Stan Getz from <em>Getz/Gilberto</em>, 1964</li> <li>“Home Fries” by Joshua Redman from <em>Freedom in the Groove</em>, 1996</li> <li>“Children Go” by Chris Potter from <em>Traveling Mercies</em>, 2002</li> <li>“3-in-1 Without The Oil” by Rahsaan Roland Kirk from <em>Domino</em>, 1962</li> <li>“Singin’ the Blues” by the Original Dixie Jazz Band, feat. Frankie Trumbauer on C Melody Sax, 1920</li> <li>“Lingus” by Snarky Puppy feat. Cory Henry from <em>We Like It Here</em>, 2014</li> <li>“Warriors” by Aaliyah Rose from <em>She-Ra and the Princesses of Power</em>, 2019</li> <li>“What Have We Done” by Shook Twins from <em>Some Good Lives</em>, 2019</li> </ul> <p><strong>BLACK LIVES MATTER</strong></p> <p>As Kirk mentioned on the show, below are some things to read and watch to learn more about America's shameful history of systemic racism. Just three things, actually:</p> <ul> <li><em>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</em