Television : Little Johnny Jewel [ purchase ]  I scanned my list of potential subjects for this theme (read my last post if you don’t kn...

If you are of a certain age (old) and in the UK, there is the classic line: "They think it's all over; it is now!" It refers t...

Uncle Tupelo : Atomic Power [ purchase ] This is going to be one of those posts that tries to create a fusion of different things. L...

Lynyrd Skynyrd : Gimme Three Steps [ purchase ] A few years back, I wrote a piece for Cover Me that was timed to run on the annivers...

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...

Golden Smog : Pecan Pie [ purchase ] Getting older mostly sucks. I’m sore, I take medication, I have to watch my diet, and on and on...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds : Red Right Hand [ purchase the album ] [ purchase Seasons 1-3 of Peaky Blinders ] Sometimes, a song s...

We briefly interrupt our annual In Memoriam theme to start a new tradition—highlighting the 10 most viewed posts of 2015. The variety ...

Hank Williams, "Honky Tonk Blues" Honky Tonky Blues, purchase I lived ‘down South’ for a number of years, but I ha...

Wilco : Wilco (the Song) [ purchase ] One of the best things about writing for this blog is that it has given me an outlet to use musi...

Golden Smog : V [ purchase ] For the next couple of weeks, we will be writing about “Side Projects,” the musical projects that are cre...

I have to admit that I cannot remember ever being at a bar for last call. Which is not a joke—you know, like “if you remember the sixt...

[ purchase Sunken Treasure, which includes more Tweedy banter ] The theme this week is Stage Banter. I know that when I go to a concert...

Photo courtesy of Katherine L. Ehle Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band : Danny Callahan [ purchase the studio version ] It struc...

Wilco : Burned [ purchase ] For the soundtrack to the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol, Wilco covered "Burned", a song Neil Young...

Billy Bragg & Wilco: Walt Whitman's Niece [ purchase ] As a listener and blogger, I tend to favor a focus on history, production an...

Billy Bragg and Wilco: Hoodoo Voodoo [ purchase ] When one thinks of Woody Guthrie, one usually things of music with a message. Guthrie sang...

Wilco: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart "I am an American aquarium drinker..." There's a reason you'll find Aqu...

Wilco: The Late Greats [ purchase ] The Late Greats was one the first blogs that garnered a bookmark upon my discovery of this wing ...