Bill Morrissey: Handsome Molly [ purchase ] Bill Morrissey: Birches [ purchase ] His songs were like Elmer Rising's pen and ink masterp...

The Louvin Brothers: When I Stop Dreaming [ Purchase ] Charlie Louvin: "What Are Those Things (With Big Black Wings)?" [ Purc...

Gerry Rafferty : Big Change in the Weather [ purchase ] Stealers Wheel: Outside Looking In [ purchase ] $125,000 a year in royalti...

Ray Price: Crazy Arms [ purchase ] Waylon Jennings: Rainy Day Woman [ purchase ] Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two: Luther Played the ...

Pentangle : Sweet Child [ purchase ] Bert Jansch : Angie [ purchase ] Most of the time, Bert Jansch is described as a British folk ...

Amy Winehouse: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow [ purchase ] There's not much left to say about R&B crooner Amy Winehouse, whose July...

Kagrra, : Haha e [ purchase ] Kagrra, : Arishi Hi no Bishou [ purchase ] One of the saddest things in Japanese culture is the hig...

Loleatta Holloway : Cry To Me [ purchase ] Among the soul deaths this year were those of Marv Tarplin (you know his guitar from “Tracks Of...

Cesaria Evora : Sodade [ purchase ] The Cape Verde Islands are a chain of ten volcanic islands off the coast of Senegal. Much of the la...

The Wailers: Tall Cool One [ purchase ] The Wailers: I Want To Walk With You [ purchase ] The Fabulous Wailers were the Zeligs of...

  Matt Jones : Ballad of Medgar Evers  [ purchase ] The civil rights movement peaked during my childhood. I vaguely remember reading ...

Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard: Who's That Knocking [ purchase ] Hazel Dickens: Only A Hobo Hazel Dickens: Hills of Home [ purchase ] ...

Leon Redbone : Blue Christmas [ purchase ] Blue Christmas provides the template for the holiday heartbreak song. Usually, the emotion gets h...

Chris Smither: Coventry Carol [ unpurchaseable ] As I wrote about earlier this month over at Cover Lay Down , the conceit of the Holiday Cl...

Eef Barzelay : Joy to the World [ purchase ] According to our friends at Wikipedia, "Joy to the World" is the most published ...

The Brady Bunch : Frosty The Snowman [ purchase ] The first single from the first album by The Brady Bunch was a Holiday song released ...

Les Brown & his Orchestra feat. Doris Day : The Christmas Song [ purchase ] John Edwards : The Christmas Song Out of print Smokey Robins...

Emmylou Harris : Christmas Time’s A-Coming [ purchase ] Country music Christmas albums: Bah, humbug. They are almost all forgettable, o...

Poi Dog Pondering with The Dirty Dozen Brass Band : Mele Kalikimaka [ purchase ] I must apologize to one of our readers, who sent me an...

Book Of Love : We Three Kings [ purchase ] See if you can name the decade in which this song was recorded. The Philadelphia-based sy...