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(Originally finalized on August 28, 2025)
Preface: I briefly considered bundling some lefts in with last week's rights, but it quickly became apparent that lefts aren't that common (as a lefty, I can confirm that this is not out of the ordinary). There were just a few scattered songs that use the word as past tense for "leaving" (which I have planned for a separate theme). Then, I thought about wrongs, and I was able to scrounge up just enough songs for another theme.
Monday: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Was I Right Or Wrong [studio outtake, recorded 1974]
Comments: The recording history of this song - originally cut at Muscle Shoals for the band's first scrapped attempt at a debut album, and later considered for their official sophomore release, Second Helping - is a little hard to keep track of. Suffice to say, it was initially left on the cutting room floor. But it's a haunting tale of a man who left town to make it big, only to return home to find the parents he wanted to prove himself to dead in the ground...
Tuesday: The Allman Brothers Band - Done Somebody Wrong (Live) [At Fillmore East, 1971]
Comments: One of the all-time great live albums of the '70s, on At Fillmore East The Allman Brothers Band pay hearty tribute to the blues, even as they push the music to new levels. One example of that is this cover of an old blues song previously recorded by "King of the Slide Guitar" Elmore James.
Wednesday: Buffalo Springfield - Flying On The Ground Is Wrong [Buffalo Springfield, 1966]
Comments: We return to Buffalo Springfield's debut album, which not only features a "right" song and a "wrong" song, but two wrongs songs, in fact! And I'm showing my bias by picking the one written by Neil Young, and not Stephen Stills. :-p
Thursday: Downliners Sect - Baby What's Wrong [released as a single, 1964]
Comments: We're a little bit tight on "wrong" songs, so I'm pulling out a deep cut to fill out this list. Although the band seems little remembered today, the Downliners Sect formed out of the British Blues scene, and had some influence over their more culturally and commercially successful contemporaries, such as The Yardbirds.
Friday: The Yardbirds - I Ain't Done Wrong [For Your Love, 1965]
Comments: From the early period in which Jeff Beck had newly replaced Eric Clapton, singer Keith Relf nabs the songwriting credit for this soft re-write of the blues Done Somebody Wrong. To the band's credit, they throw in one of their signature rave-ups to make it sound like their own. For historical context, this was the musical culture Jimmy Page stepped into just before forming Led Zeppelin, which itself put a new spin on a lot of old blues and folk tunes.
Saturday: Cream - We're Going Wrong [Disraeli Gears, 1967]
Comments: As has been thoroughly established, Eric Clapton left The Yardbirds, made a stopover with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and then reached superstardom in the power trio Cream. This psychedelic blues from their sophomore album was written by singer Jack Bruce, and features Ginger Baker's drumming prominently.
Sunday: Ten Years After - I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always (Live) [Undead, 1968]
Comments: If this week's undercover theme is getting creative with the blues, then here's another good example. From Ten Years After's second album - and first live album - this extended jam based on a Count Basie number shows off the band's instrumental chops, and demonstrates their early flirtations with jazz.