So this mainline Jesus is on, right, what is it actually? I always thought it was about a train, especially with the world of gospel awash w...

  purchase [ Paradise and Lunch   ] I find myself pre-disposed to prefer the Ry Cooder version of this because that's where I first hea...

purchase [ Silver Meteor ] This is a year where Christmas is very much what you and you alone make of it. Yeah, I managed to get the tree a...

John Hiatt is just terrific, one of the best, if not in sales, certainly in terms of influence and output, up there, in my book, with Neil Y...

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purchase [ Chicken Skin Music ] I only know of Charles Calhoun/Jesse Stone from digging through the  Internet. Maybe if I had...

purchase [ FDR in Trinidad ] I would have preferred to post this 24 hours earlier: hate to be accused of tilting the votes one w...

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

    Buy " The Best of Flaco Jimenez "   Ry Cooder is the kind of eclectic musician that would include an accordion f...

Rev. Gary Davis : I Am The Light of the World [ purchase ] Many people just listen to music as background noise, or something to sing ...

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live Purchase: [ Ry Cooder 1970 version ] I tell folks that I could listen to Ry Cooder ...

What you and I might call a side project may not be such a “side” for the musician himself: you could argue that Ry Cooder has been buil...

  Roy Bookbinder: Delia [ YouTube link ] Purchase: [ Roy Bookbinder: Delia ] Almost nobody knows this musician and that is a pity...