Ten For Today: Songs About Redheads

Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Leslie West and Mountain, The Beach Boys, The Incredible String Band, James Taylor, Beat Happening, Magic Dirt, Weezer, Golden Smog, The Zutons

Can you believe it? National Kiss a Ginger* Day is upon us once again. Having grown up in an Irish-American part of my neighborhood, these creatures are not as exotic to me as they might be to others. And in truth, the celebration is a little bit tainted for me because of a very sad but also very funny incident that happened in 2008. A Massachusetts sta…