Big Black: Jordon, MN [ purchase ] Gawd, I'm torn on a couple different fronts, here... I want to be the contributor that reps' my ...

John Hartford: The Boys From North Carolina [ purchase ] I did a whole week of Carolina coversongs over at Cover Lay Down this April in ho...

Leadbelly: Alabama Bound [ purchase ] Jelly Roll Morton: The Story of 'I'm Alabama Bound' [I'm unable to find a purchase l...

Ted Hawkins: Missin' Mississippi [ purchase ] I will not spend time repeating myself, because I have just written a long piece about Te...

The Jayhawks: Somewhere In Ohio [ purchase ] Americana at it's finest... I hope I'm not taking away from someone posting a Neil You...

John Gorka : I'm From New Jersey [ purchase ] I'm from Massachusetts, actually. But since I see from the blogger back-end that so...

Sonic Youth : New Hampshire [ purchase ] Until Sonic Youth hipped me, I never knew B.B. King turns on New Hampshire boys.

Frank Zappa : Montana [ purchase ] I'm gonna be movin' to Montana soon, gonna be a Dental Floss tycoon - yes I am!

Joni Mitchell: California [ purchase ] I'm kicking off the Star Maker Machine Fifty State Challenge with my favorite Joni Mitchell son...

Just movin' the future theme ideas post up to the top... Please post any ideas you have for future themes in the comment section to this...

I often come across articles where the writer bemoans that nowadays, there's nothing new and original in music, that everything is a r...

[ purchase ] The Beach Boys: God Only Knows (Instrumental Backing) I realize not everybody is a musician and some of this may be Greek...

Cisco Houston: Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) Lyrics by Woody Guthrie. [ purchase ] Joni Mitchell is one of my favorite songwriters, b...

Our goal next week is to post 50 songs, one for each state in the United States. Please post songs with the name of an American state in th...

Suzanne Vega: The Queen And The Soldier [ purchase ] My wife and I compliment each other very well. When it comes to songs, I usually respo...

Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Tortoise: Thunder Road [ purchase ] (On writing as a process of adaptation, part three: the extreme cov...

Elvis Costello: Tramp The Dirt Down [ purchase ] Various sources of inspiration for songwriting, volume III of at least IV Politics & W...

[ purchase ] Dillard & Clark: Out On The Side It's amazing what learning an instrument will do for your appreciation of good ...

Tim Finn: Persuasion [ purchase ] Richard and Teddy Thompson: Persuasion [ purchase ] In my first entry for this week's theme, I lo...

Many times, rather than labor over it, the smith will melt the song down to it's constituant parts and recast it. The creator might take...