Neil Young: Heart of  Gold via YouTube [above] [ purchase mp3 at Amazon ] I held back until the last minute before our new theme come...

1910 Fruitgum Company : May I Take A Giant Step ( Into Your Heart) [Purchase] Between their two biggest Top 10 singles, ...

SVT : Heart of Stone [ purchase ] I’ve written about Jorma, so now it is time to write about Jack. Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen ha...

Led Zeppelin: Heartbreaker via YouTube (above) [ purchase ] Valentine's Day = forever love, flowers, chocolate, diamond rings...

Yaz: Winter Kills [ purchase ] I was a true child of the eighties alternative movements, absorbing everything from Depeche Mode and...

[ purchase ] This week’s theme gives me the chance to deal with a pet peeve. River is not a Christmas song. It is a winter song. Speci...

Chris Knight: North Dakota (demo) [ purchase ] Since New England is about to get hit with "Snowmageddon," or whatever they ...

Fountains of Wayne : Valley Winter Song [ purchase ] Last week, in writing about Dough, I compared them to Fountains of Wayne, who ar...

[Purchase] Bob Dylan wrote a poem about her. Blur asked her to sing with them. And Jacques Dutronc married her. But it's take...

Rolling Stones: Winter [ Purchase @ Amazon ] “Winter”, from Goat’s Head Soup – the ’73 Rolling Stones release – got this review from ...

  The Beatles/Spottiswoode: Within You Without You http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com/ Resurrection/Reincarnation… Star Mar...

Dough : Come Back [ purchase ] Well, we’re back. And it seems fitting to follow the In Memoriam theme and a short period of dormancy ...

[ purchase solo works from Mike Auldridge here ] Like most players of the resophonic guitar - popularly called the Dobro, though as with ...

  YouTube copy of the "Official" video for the Monkees' "I'm A Believer" In the mid to late 60s, I had...

Renaissance : Mr. Pine [ purchase ] When I looked at the list of musicians who died in 2012, there were a number of famous names from...

[ purchase this for a good introduction to Ravi Shankar‘s music ] The headline in the New York Times read, “Ravi Shankar, Sitarist Who...

Emmylou Harris : Calling My Children Home [ purchase ] My prayers go out to the community of Newtown, CT. In a recent bluegrass jam,...

Dan Bern : Kid’s Prayer [ purchase City Folk Live X ] [ Download the song from Bern’s Bandcamp page ] I am breaking my “no repeat” g...

  [YouTube link: click the image above] We Are the Children. In my mind, there is no song more to the point of this week’s them...

[ purchase ] The Circle Game was the first song I thought of to begin this week‘s theme. Joni Mitchell walks us though various stages ...