Another rabbit warren of antique archaicism to fall down today, as we grasp at the few straws offered by Tin Pan Alley to the Pauls of this ...

Rockpile : A Knife and Fork [ purchase ] I took some time off from this blog over the summer, so for the Leftovers theme I’m trying ...

Purchase [  Let It Rock] If you had no other American reference to go by, you could be forgiven for confusing the pronunciation of th...

Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons : Hit and Run [ purchase ] When I saw the album, Screaming Targets by Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons descri...

Purchase The Great 28   A lot of people claim to have invented rock 'n roll. But, that's a prodigious bit of boasting, to sa...

French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson : Killerman Gold Posse [ purchase ] A theme within a theme—two “Gold” related posts about 1980s Richa...

Chuck Berry: Come On [ purchase ] Chuck Berry, sublime guitarist and avowed master of the short rock song, had no patience for mis-dialers...

Chuck Berry : Maybellene [ purchase ] Is there a better car song than Maybellene? Chuck's crunchy chords keep cadence as he sings about ...

Chuck Berry: Havana Moon [ purchase ] I was flipping through a whole playlist of moonsong, trying to find something to break up the lu...