You need a little Melvern for Friday night. Because everybody needs ukelele-driven sweet-as-standards pop songs, with songcraft featuring overtones of Nilsson or good McCartney or Costello, wry but hopeful and never mean-spirited. →[More:]You need to play some Melvern while you put on your jaunty Friday-night hat and thread the stickpin through your shiny Friday-night tie. You need

Angel on my Shoulder
Sad and Blue
Beer Cans
And lullabye love song, You and Me and My Ukelele.

And I need to go out right now and hear him play! Join me, won't you?