Joe Jackson

In June 1981, Joe Jackson put aside New Wave and recorded an album of Louis Jordan and Cab Calloway covers.

Strange the amount of times in writing these Song Of the Day posts is the amount of time I've bounced back to 1979. It was a pivotal year, punk was dying, disco was it's heights, what would be soon classic rock was rounding third into home, and the candy colored skinny tied "new wave" was in full swing, with bands like The Cars and The Knack bumping up against Led Zeppelin and Chic and e

Joe Jackson's 1989 album 'Blaze of Glory' found the singer merging his many recent genre-hopping experiments into a cohesive whole.