R.B. Greaves : Take A Letter Maria   [ purchase ]  I’ve written in the past about how I started paying attention to music in 1969. as a resu...

purchase [ Platters version ] purchase [ The Band version ] purchase [ Freddy Mercury version ] There are many notable version of ...

Can it really only be 16 years since the Decemberists first peered around the corner into existence? Strangely, and I speak as a fan, i...

Well it is, isn't it? And it would have, anyway, because everything changes, that's a fact, to paraphrase Bruce Springsteen. Which i...

Sam Cooke : Try A Little Tenderness/(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons/You Send Me [ purchase ] Before “Try A Little Tenderness” was a s...

Frank Patterson : Danny Boy [ purchase ] Sam Cooke : Danny Boy [ purchase ] The Pogues : Danny Boy [ purchase ] Richard Thompso...

Sam Cooke: Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha [ purchase ] James Taylor: Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha [ purchase ] Things heat up a bit as w...

The Soul Stirrers : Oh Mary, Don´t You Weep [ purchase ] When the Soul Stirrers sing gospel, even atheists perk up their ears... I said that...

The Tractors : Shortnin' Bread [ purchase ] This week's theme is somewhat out of my area of expertise. Not being a parent I only hav...

Sam Cooke: Blowin' In The Wind [ purchase ] When (Sam Cooke) first heard "Blowin' In The Wind" on the new Freewheelin...

Sam Cooke: Wonderful World [ purchase ] During the time Lou (Adler) and Sam had roomed together, they'd tossed "Wonderful World...

Sam Cooke: Another Saturday Night [ purchase ] On December 11, 1964, Sam Cooke’s life was taken by shotgun at the hands of a female motel m...