Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers : Refugee [ purchase ] I didn’t really think I would be posting this song. Here it is, the end of the w...

Una Valli with The Peanut Butter Conspiracy : Yesterday [Out of print] I have been reluctant to post this song, mainly because I am usually ...

Odin : King Kong [ purchase ] When I saw the weekly theme I immediately presumed we'd get Jimmy Smith and 70's progressive roc...

Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble: The Sky Is Crying [ purchase ] Los Lonely Boys: Tell Me Why [ purchase ] This fave SRV tune, record...

Hansson & Karlsson: Triplets [purchase] In 1966 twenty-three year old Bo Hansson played guitar with Stockholm blues rockers The Merryme...

The Meters : Sophisticated Cissy [ purchase ] When I think of the sound of New Orleans, I think of great piano players long before I th...

Jimmy Smith: Messy Bessie [ purchase ] If you could only buy one organ-led jazz album, you'd be in quite a bind. For starters, there w...

Widespread Panic: Hope In A Hopeless World [ purchase ] Pops Staples: Hope In A Hopeless World [ purchase ] I went through a jamband phase...

Bob Marley and the Wailers : I Shot the Sherriff [ purchase ] Eric Clapton : I Shot the Sherriff [ purchase ] Eric Clapton establis...

Kris Delmhorst: Tavern [ purchase ] Kris Delmhorst's 2006 album Strange Conversation is an especially literary one, comprised entirely ...

John William Davis: Sonnet 129 [purchase] John's website is down and further research shows no CDs are available on CDBaby or Amazon....

Iron Maiden: Rime of the Ancient Mariner [ purchase ] Enough with these namby-pamby singer-songwriters, Star Makers. Let's rock! Back w...

The Innocence Mission: No Storms Come [ Purchase ] When I was reading up on Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopkins to prepare to write this p...

Brady Earnhart : Wild Nights [ purchase ] Wild Nights is a short poem by Emily Dickinson. There are three stanzas of four lines each, a...

The Story: love is more thicker than forget [ purchase ] / [ read the poem ] The ever-lowercase e.e. cummings isn't the obvious choice ...

Mark Stewart & The Mafia : Jerusalem [ purchase ] Geoviki´s post on Jerusalem as interpreted by Billy Bragg made me remember another fi...

Glastonbury Tor Billy Bragg : Blake's Jerusalem [ purchase ] The poem we know as Jerusalem is William Blake's 1808 preface to ...

Loreena McKennitt : The Lady of Shalott [ purchase ] Alfred Lord Tennyson published his original version of The Lady of Shalott in 1832...

The Welcome Wagon: But For You Who Fear My Name Purchase I didn't think I would be able to post anything this week, but when our just a...

Fisher: Mad Girls Love Song [ Purchase ] It's difficult to look at a picture, like the one above, of Sylvia Plath and imagine the darkn...