Amy Farris: Anyway [ purchase ] The perfect combination of Spector-era girl group harmonies and echoey Neko Case production on this obscure ...

Paul Simon: Hearts and Bones [ product ] I will forever associate this song and its album with the arc of a particular love affair, specifi...

Joni Mitchell: Hejira [ purchase ] Joni Mitchell: Hejira (the Travelogue version) [ purchase ] I helped start up and have maintained a mon...

Austin Lounge Lizards : The Drugs I Need [ purchase ] As a regular reader of this blog I thought that if I were a contributor, this might ha...

Lucinda Williams: Essence [ purchase ] This is one of my favorite Lucinda Williams tracks, but it's also one that I can never play when ...

Crash Test Dummies : God Shuffled His Feet [ purchase ] God created man in His own image, and set him loose in the world. After a while, He ...

Nick Lowe : Rose Of England [ purchase ] The album Rose Of England by Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit may best be remembered for I Knew The ...

Little Feat : Dixie Chicken [ purchase ] Dixie Chicken, the song and the album, was my introduction to the wonderful music of Little Feat. T...

Fountains of Wayne: Utopia Parkway [ purchase ] Fountains of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood often come off like the Don...

Madness: One Step Beyond [purchase] Exuberant and joyful, jaunty and jubilant, One Step Beyond is one of only a couple of Madness songs tha...

Randy Newman: Sail Away [ purchase ] As a budding teen audiophile, I spent a good portion of my adolescent summer nights camped out on the h...

UFO: Lights Out [ purchase ] Growing up, I listened to AM pop radio longer than most of my peers. So when the classic rock format first hi...

Kathleen Edwards: Hockey Skates [ purchase ] Jane Siberry: Hockey [ purchase ] Although I had plenty of songs I could have chosen for this...

The Weakerthans: Tournament of Hearts [ purchase ] Why, why can't I draw right up to what I want to say? Why can't I ever stop wher...

The Mountain Goats : Cubs In Five [ purchase ] "...And the Chicago Cubs will beat every team in the league, and the Tampa Bay Bucs will...

Tom Russell : The Pugilist at 59 [ purchase ] Tom Russell gives us a vivid character sketch of a boxer whose glory days are gone. He remembe...

Warren Zevon : Boom Boom Mancini [ purchase ] Sun Kil Moon : Duk Koo Kim [ purchase ] On November 13, 1982, 21-year-old lightweight champ...

Steve Goodman : A Dying Cub Fan‘s Last Request [ purchase ] As I write this, baseball season is drawing to a close. The Cubs have not been e...

Kyle Petty : Oh King Richard [ purchase ] Flashback: July 4,1984. Daytona International Speedway. Richard Petty wins his 200th race in a car...

Kirsty MacColl : England 2 Colombia 0 [ purchase ] This isn’t a song about sports. Rather, the World Cup match between England and Colombia ...