Keith Jarrett : My Back Pages [ purchase ]  Over at Cover Me , in honor of Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday earlier this week, the staff, includ...

  purchase  [ Clarence White guitar ] I confess- the text here is half baked. Never quite finished – but this music needs to go out before ...

Late to the game as ever, here I am banging on about closing the honky-tonks, just as some sectors are begging for them to be opened up agai...

Trying for a double whammy, associating both the song and the performer with the theme, doncha know! Well, no, not as it turns out. And, any...

In the Madness I'm going to stick with the sanity and sense delineation, not least as there is seeming so little about of late. An...

So, looking ahead to next year, how can I and how will I serenade my significant? Of course, I wouldn't dream of singing myself, my Funn...

Unlike esteemed colleague Darius, I have no such qualms about steps over stairs, enjoying the smorgasbord of songs available. Many refer to ...

For me this was always the consummate Byrds track, given as it is one of the earliest outriders, 1966, for their later more overt countr...

It's a tricky one this, as, of course, is honesty, weaving a devious path between credibility and risibility. Achieving both, no doubt. ...

Purchase: The Byrds, The Notorious Byrd Brothers Listen:  Going Back It is one of those almost cliché—yet still astounding—facts ...

A change from some recent jottings, as I ease myself back into something at least resembling a comfort zone, avoiding the scatter gun of ...

The Byrds : Turn! Turn! Turn! [ purchase ] They say that writers should stick to what they know, but I’m going to chuck that advice aw...

Byrds: Positively 4th Street [Untitled 1970] [ purchase ] Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man [Royal Albert Hall 1971] [ purchase CD ] [ purchase ...

The Byrds: You Ain't Going Nowhere The Byrds: Nothing Was Delivered [ purchase ] I'll leave it to someone else to do the comprehens...

The Byrds: Hickory Wind [ purchase ] Hickory Wind is probably the first music blog that I ever came across and started reading regularly. I...

The Byrds: Pretty Polly [ purchase ] For whatever reason, following the first two most obvious songs for this theme (all together now... ye...

The Byrds: So You Want to be a Rock 'n' Roll Star [ purchase ] So, you want to be a rock and roll star ? Then listen now to what I ...

We had a power cut round my way, it lasted most of the evening and night. I get back and there are about a trillion posts! In an effort to c...

The Byrds: He Was a Friend of Mine [ purchase ] Okkervil River: The President Is Dead [ purchase ] Wow, here we are four days into our his...

The Byrds: Draft Morning [ purchase ] I am a huge Byrds fan - along with R.E.M., they're probably my #1 favorite band. And "Draft ...