purchase [ Europe 72 ] Back when I was in colllege I had a guitar-playing friend named Dickster whose band focused on Grateful Dead covers...

  purchase [ Jimmy Reed ] Thinking over the word <boss> and its connotations, it occured to me that the word probably came into the E...

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...

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...

purchase [ White Album] If we are talking about questions, I suppose the question word <why> is at the fore of this theme. What ...

(It's extraordinary the things you discover in this job, one being the difference a space between 2 words can make. And the similarit...

(Merle Haggard version above) purchase [ Tom Jones ] <Green, Green Grass of Home> may well be the first Trees/Grass song tha...

purchase [ If Only I Could Remember My Name] Wikipedia tells us that Crosby's 1971 first solo album <If Only I Could Remember ...

purchase [ No More Changes ] Can you identify a musician's "signature style" just by hearing them play on a particula...

Rufus Thomas : Walking The Dog [ purchase ] At this point, Rufus Thomas is probably best remembered for this fun, nursery rhyme influ...

purchase [ Might As Well ] I've never been so dedicated as to call myself a Dead Head, but I have spent many a happy hour groovi...

There's a lot about the Grateful Dead that could be included under the heading of chaos. Carol Brightman's book about the band ...

Grateful Dead : Dire Wolf [ purchase ] The Grateful Dead album Workingman’s Dead was released in 1970. I was ten years old, but my o...

Otis Redding : Hard to Handle [ purchase ] Oh. I remember that when I first heard the Blues Brothers do this song, I wondered why ...

Rather than dive straight into songs with jail, gaol or prison, I am going to run with the lyrics that alight always in my mind at any menti...

The Dead are in my head a lot these days, the recent 5cd charity tribute, 'Day of the Dead' , justly garnering a lot of media att...

At first I had a silly and somewhat vainglorious notion of posting a song relating to each and every element. That would get the post...

Grateful Dead : Scarlet Begonias/ Fire on the Mountain (Capitol Theater 4-27-77) [ purchase Dick's Picks Vol. 29: 5/19/77 (Fox The...