The mythological lure of the road has long attracted attention in way more than just musical memes. We’ll get to that in due course, but it ...

Rather than dive straight into songs with jail, gaol or prison, I am going to run with the lyrics that alight always in my mind at any menti...

Christine Lavin : Prisoners of Their Hairdos [ purchase ] My recent run of television-related posts would suggest a discussion of The ...

Lyle Lovett : Church [ purchase ] I like to say that mankind invented religion to answer the question, “What’s for dinner?” Think about...

Lyle Lovett: Penguins [ Purchase ] I'm really not sure how a penguin manages to be sensitive to his needs, but oh lord, I go for "...

I couldn’t resist using the title of this post this week. I knew it had to be a three-song post at week’s end. Fortunately, there are plent...

Lyle Lovett : That‘s Right (You‘re Not From Texas) [ purchase ] Do you remember the movie Urban Cowboy, and the mechanical bulls that w...

I would love to have time for three more posts this week, but I don’t. Each of these songs and their albums are worthy of a full post of the...

Grateful Dead : Friend of the Devil [ purchase ] Lyle Lovett: Friend of the Devil [ purchase ] Bob Dylan: Friend of the Devil (live '9...

Lyle Lovett: North Dakota [ purchase ] And the boys from North Dakota They drink whisky for their fun And the cowboys down in Texas Th...

Lyle Lovett: If I Had A Boat (live, 2003) [ purchase original ] If Lyle Lovett had a boat, he'd go out on the ocean. And if he had a ...