Unlike some of my fellow Star Makers, I do not have a collection of rarities to draw upon. So I have had to approach this theme differently....

The Quarrymen : In Spite Of All The Danger [ purchase ] Sometime in 1957, either in July or sometime in October or November, John Lennon, Pa...

Let's face it - I'm not only never early for anything... but I'm rarely even on time. I seem to go through life with a 15-minut...

One thing I miss about being a DJ is putting together a a good set of music. This week I had a lot of songs I wanted to post but didn'...

Bela Fleck: Inman Square [ purchase ] Béla Anton Leoš Fleck - named for three modern European composers - had already mastered a vast array ...

Tori Amos: Baltimore Tori Amos would probably be none too pleased that I was giving this song any air time at all considering she doesn...

I’ve been absent here at SMM for quite some time now. At first, it was because I was having trouble keeping my own blog current. But I reali...

Bonnie Raitt: Finest Lovin' Man [ purchase ] I'm embarrassed to admit that for most of my adult life, I had no idea that Bonnie Rai...

Leonard Cohen: Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Live in London, July 2008) [ purchase ] I'm late for this week's Early theme ...

INXS : The One Thing [ purchase ] It was 1982. It would be another year before MTV went on the air, another year and a half before we had it...

Grateful Dead: Early Morning Rain [ purchase ] It's kind of funny, isn't it? The theme this week in "Early", yet we'...

John Wesley Harding : To Whom It May Concern [ purchase ] (scroll down to New Deal) In August 1997, I began an e-mail relationship with some...

The Zombies: Care of Cell 44 [ purchase ] The title of this song stretches the theme just a little bit. But the lyrics are the contents of...

Postcards are a way of sending a short message, just enough to check in. Their shortness would seem to make them perfect for songs. Here is ...

The Marvelettes: Please, Mr. Postman [ Purchase ] Yet another definitive postal song that I couldn't let pass by. This song was The Mar...

Seigobillies: Letter Song [currently unavailable] Hey folks, it's time once again to set the Wayback Machine for New Brunswick, N.J., i...

Michelle Shocked: Anchorage [ purchase ] "I took time out to write to my old friend I walked across that burning bridge I mailed my le...

Bonnie Raitt : Love Letter [ purchase ] Bonnie Hayes, like so many others, started life as a musician. In the early 1980s, she fronted a pop...

Elvis Presley: Return to Sender [ Purchase ] It might almost be cliche to post this song since it's such a quintessential mail song, bu...

Robert Plant and Allison Krauss : Please Read The Letter [ purchase ] We have a mail chute of sorts. It's a slot in the outside wall of ...