I’m a big fan of Bonnie Raitt. Always have been, from long before her eventual break through, the one heralded, I guess by the song that e...

 Again, for me a no-brainer, if again bringing back to these pages a fella I have championed before. But with good reason, like Difford and ...

Richard Thompson : Yankee, Go Home [ purchase ]  This song has nothing to do with baseball, but regular readers of my writing know that I...

Richard Thompson : The Poor Ditching Boy Los Lobos : Will The Wolf Survive? [ purchase Henry The Human Fly ] [ purchase How Will The Wol...

Well, strings don't  come much bigger than Victoria. Who she? Victoria is the stand-up bass guitar Danny Thompson bought for a fiver (£5...

The suggestion offered from above was to look at covers of jazz standards, you know the sort of thing, bluegrass Brubeck , country Coltrane ...

Why does the phrase "Guitar Heroes" always have me thinking the wanton destruction of guitars? I guess it’s my age, as the sure fi...

I am so uncertain as to whether there are any songs about e-mails that I am not going to look. Any complaints about that, send me a S.A.E. f...

Is there a more chilling song in the the already well-refrigerated canon of Richard Thompson? No stranger to a bleak lyric, this song, fr...

Dropkick Murphys : The Warrior’s Code [ purchase ] I suspect that many of you who read this blog also attend live music performan...

Wreck of the Carlos Rey Mayday always seems to me the cipher for maritime disasters, despite it being anything but exclusive thereto. B...

Ian Hunter : F.B.I. [ purchase the album at a very high price ] [ purchase just the song, at a reasonable price ] Growing up, as a go...

Rick Robbins : Low & Lonely [ purchase ] You know how in “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” Arlo sings that it: all started two Tha...

Sure, you know this, of course you do. You may have sung it as a child; it certainly sounds as if you should have sung it as a child. I d...

The Left Banke : She May Call You Up Tonight  [ purchase ] When you think of the Left Banke, if you do, you probably think about “Wa...