I think it probably the garbled syntax that attracted me first to this song, having always a love for the vagaries of language and how it c...

Joe Strummer : Redemption Song Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer : Redemption Song   [ purchase Streetcore ] [ purchase Unearthed ] When Bob Ma...

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[ purchase ] I guess this is sort of related to my “No Thanks” post about Old 97’s “Lonely Holiday,” but back in June, when I think that...

Nanci Griffith : Desperados Waiting For A Train [ purchase ] No personal story, no long history lesson, no political discussion toda...

I don't know about you, but I love playing with words, adding and subtracting the prefixes that conjure up meaning, sometimes discoverin...

I don't know what colour the devil's right hand may be, but it would not surprise me if it were, too, red, what with what he has in ...

purchase [ Aint No Good Chain Gang ] Love can make you a prisoner. Love can set you free. I got the sense that a search of <Pris...

purchase [ Paradise and Lunch   ] Politics is very muchly on my mind these days. Mind you, I'm not talking about the US election...

Cat Stevens : Father And Son [ purchase ] Unlike my predecessors in this theme, I’m pretty confident that Cat Stevens’ Tea For The Til...

Wall of Voodoo : Mexican Radio [ purchase ] I like it when a bunch of things come together to inspire a blog post. We’ve been ...

   In 1965 Johnny Cash recorded his 1956 #1 country single "I Walk The Line" in German. Fifteen years earlier, Cash was assig...

Bet you're expecting me to extol the merits of a good old Cornish burr, Devonian dipthongs or even just my home county of Sussex and ...

For the past few years, I have been the glad recipient of postings from Santastic. Although the mashup genre may not be your bag, it cer...

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June Carter Cash (and Johnny Cash) : Jackson [ purchase ] June Carter Cash’s success story actually began two years before she was even bo...

Johnny Cash : Boa Constrictor [Purchase] For his 23rd album, 1966's Everybody Loves A Nut, The Man In Black took his cue from R...

Johnny Cash : We'll Meet Again [ purchase ] "We'll Meet Again" is a song hope in times of trouble. A mega-hit in Engl...

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Johnny Cash: Nasty Dan [ purchase ] The lead track on Johnny Cash's 1975 children's album was actually written for the Man in Black...