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Asleep at the Wheel with Huey Lewis : Hubbin‘ It [ purchase ] I couldn’t let this week’s theme go by without sharing some western swing...

Stevie Wonder : Sir Duke [ purchase ] Those of us living in and around Washington, D.C., have many reminders that this is Duke Ellingto...

Medium Cool featuring Alex Chilton : Like Someone In Love [ purchase ] When I think of Alex Chilton, I think of at least half a dozen d...

XTC : The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul [ purchase ] I don’t like the label “post punk”, but if I have to tell you what it means, I po...

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Frank Zappa: Zoot Allures [ Purchase ] For those who have written off Zappa's music as a bit too busy and a bit too weird, here...

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Alison Brown : The Magnificent Seven [ purchase ] How many banjo players can boast that their music has been played in the depths of ou...

Sting : Consider Me Gone [ purchase ] Here’s one way to find songs for this week’s theme. Look up Dream of the Blue Turtles on Wikipedi...

Wes Montgomery : What's New? [ purchase ] The popular torch standard What's New? was written in 1939 and like all great standa...

Sam McGee : When the Wagon Was New [ Purchase ] In recent decades, country music has branched off in a hundred different directions. I...

Old Crow Medicine Show : New Virginia Creeper [ purchase ] Never shying from creating modern railroad songs (and working their instrum...

Billy Bragg: A New England [ purchase ] An oft-covered punkfolk youth anthem from UK singer-songwriter and left-wing activist Billy Bragg...

Lene Lovich : New Toy [Purchase] In the fall of 1981 I was a freshman in college who had unfortunately been raised on some pretty lousy...

Joni Mitchell : Love Puts On a New Face [ purchase ] I divide Joni Mitchell’s career in my mind into three distinct periods. These are ...

Dusty Springfield : A Brand New Me [ purchase ] Released two weeks into a new decade – the 1970s – A Brand New Me was the title of Du...

Gram Parsons : The New Soft Shoe [ Purchase ] E.L. Cord was a visionary and innovator, the brains behind the famed Cord automobile of the...