Sarah Jarosz : Come On Up to the House [ purchase ] God and heaven are never mentioned in the song, but Come On Up to the House has the...

John Hammond : Big Black Mariah [ purchase ] I can understand why no one has posted Big Black Mariah this week. The song is one of Tom ...

Shawn Colvin: (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night [ purchase ] Madeleine Peyroux: (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night [ purchas...

Moneybrother: Tåget Som Går In Till Stan [purchase] After ska rockers Monster parted ways in 2000 frontman Anders Wendin started his solo ...

Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks: The Piano Has Been Drinking [ purchase ] Dan Hicks' delightfully weary "cowboy jazz" take on thi...

Neptune Quartet : Table Top Joe [ purchase ] Tom Waits is an interesting subject for a week of covers, because his art is almost imposs...

Joni Mitchell : That Song About the Midway [ purchase ] In British folksongs, gypsys represent freedom, or the yearning for it. A woman...

The Beatles : Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite [ purchase ] A blog request! This poster, nabbed in an antique shop, was the inspiration ...

Dan Zanes: Wonderwheel [ purchase ] I went to a weekend fair met someone while I was there we put flowers in our hair and rode the wonderwh...

Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer : Crocodile Man [ purchase ] Our Circuses and Carnivals theme is almost done, and no one has visited the ...

Pat Martino : Send in the Clowns [ purchase ] Send in the Clowns , now a jazz standard but originally a 1973 show tune by Stephen Sondhei...

Rasputina: State Fair [ Purchase ] It may not be about a specific attraction at a carnival, but this song definitely fits the bill as far a...

Leon Russell : Tight Rope [ purchase ] I'm up on the tightwire, Flanked by life and the funeral pyre, Putting on a show for you to s...

The English Beat : Tears of a Clown [ purchase ] The sad clown is an irony that many artists have found irresistible. Smokey Robinson t...

X Japan : X [ purchase ] Man, it's almost too hot to blog here. Almost. I can't let Drum Week go by, though, without paying trib...

Cream : Tales of Brave Ulysses [ purchase ] I remember the first time I heard Cream. My oldest brother bought the album Disraeli Gears ...

The John Coltrane Quartet : Pursuance (Part 3 of A Love Supreme) [ purchase ] I may be coming to this week's theme the wrong way ro...

The Turtles : I'm Chief Kamanawanalea [ purchase ] For their 1968 concept album, Battle of the Bands, The Turtles tried to sound...

LaVern Baker : Saved [ purchase ] Could I be asked to choose a favourite drum track between the percussive detonations on Stevie Wonder...

Mickey Hart : Dance of the Hunter‘s Fire [ purchase CD ] [ purchase book ] Planet Drum became the first album to win a Grammy for Wor...