Bruce Springsteen: Wild Billy's Circus Story [ purchase ] Even though The Boss has been already featured for the horn topic, I'm g...

You can't talk "horns" in pop music without mentioning the jazz trumpet player, perhaps the most iconic of all horn blowers. H...

James "Sugar Boy" Crawford: Jock-A-Mo (1953) [ purchase ] Larry Williams: Jockamo (aka Iko-Iko) (Late '50s) [ purchase ] D...

Dirty Dozen Brass Band : It's All Over Now [ purchase ] Though the brass band sound of the second line originated in the funeral tradit...

For no apparent reason, the year 1998 seemed to see the sudden emergence of a number of bands playing what the music press would label swing...

The Mavericks: Dance The Night Away [ purchase ] Floridian alt-country band The Mavericks rose quickly in the nineties, recording six album...

Gill Landry - Lonliness [ purchase ] I originally described Gill Landry 's 2007 effort, The Ballad of Lawless Soirez, as " the so...

In the 1930s, at the height of the big band era, there were (especially black) bands that featured blues singe...

Morphine: Cure For Pain [ purchase ] I know that saxophones are a reed instrument, so are not a horn, by definition. I know that SMM is a m...

Two Cow Garage - Mediocre [ purchase ] Well, I guess since the owner's of The Star Maker Machine went and made me an "official...

Dale Hawkins: LA-Memphis-Tyler [ purchase ] Dale Hawkins hit it big in '59 with Suzie Q, but created his roots rock masterpiece ...

Harry Belafonte : Jump in the Line [ purchase ] Like my first post this week, this song is just pure joy. It's one of the first songs I...

Cheap Trick: Oo La La La [ purchase ] So, whaddya do when your career is on the slide, your bass player quits, and you've just blown tw...

The Who: Cobwebs And Strange [ purchase ] If you're looking for some horns, here's John Entwistle on trumpet, Roger Daltrey on trom...

David Wilcox: Chet Baker's Swan Song [ purchase ] Sheryl Crown: We Do What We Can [ purchase ] Two smooth, moody bittersweet ballads o...

Considering this is a 1988 reggae version of one of the most overplayed songs of all time, this must be my most uncharacteristic post ever...

I like to try and approach things from a slightly different angle. I think from my few contributions on this site you can tell one of my fav...

Bob Dylan: Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine)   [ purchase ] In addition to being one of the many superbly verbose Dylan ...

Otis Redding: Try A Little Tenderness [ purchase ] This song begins with one of my favorite horn parts in all of pop music. Then, as the ...

Back in Cars week, in my Cadillac post, I mentioned that Joni Mitchell had taken a dive deep into the heart of jazz. Now, It's time to t...