Wild Irish Rose by Kentucky Knife Fight St. Louis punk-blues five piece Kentucky Knife Fight recorded "Wild Irish Rose...

Adrian Belew (w/ David Bowie) : Pretty Pink Rose [ purchase ] Adrian Belew is an incredible, inventive guitarist, and deserves all o...

[Purchase] Ananda Shankar--nephew of the more famous Ravi Shankar--visited San Francisco in 1968 and jammed with Jimi Hendrix....

Keith Richards, Willie Nelson: Dead Flowers [ purchase   Sticky Fingers version link] Anybody else late sending flowers to Mom thi...

                  Blues Traveler : Canadian Rose                    (purchase)                   Confession time; whilst this post is,...

Okkervil River : Blue Tulip [ purchase ] When it comes to mothers, I am incredibly lucky. My mother is a wonderful woman—she was a g...

Flower Kings: The Flower King Free download from the Internet Archive (if the direct/mediafire link isnt working, try the "freedo...

David Lindley: Do You Want My Job purchase link: [ Amazon ] Once again, I'll stretch the limits of this week's theme with this...

Steely Dan: Dirty Work Purchase Link: [Amazon mp3] Before I get to the song, and my first post here, I'd just like to thank the...

Habib Koité & Bamada: "I Ka Barra (Your Work)" I’m an intellectual through and through. I love postulati...

Lee Dorsey: Work, Work, Work [Purchase] If you're looking for motivation this Monday, you've come too the wrong place. Allen...

[ purchase ] We generally try to stay away from newer music here, but this one was too obvious for me to pass on. “Women & Work”...

The Wolfe Tones : Botany Bay [ purchase ] Imagine yourself as a bricklayer in 19th Century Ireland, fed up with work and ready to t...

The Battlefield Band:  We work the black seam (purchase) Damn your eyes, Starmaker, I really, honestly, really wanted to move away fr...

The BusBoys : Minimum Wage [ purchase ] It seems that most songs about work portray it as something bad, something demeaning, or simp...

Stevie Wonder: We Can Work It Out [ Purchase link ] This selection is a little off the original train of thought for our new theme...

The Temptations : I Wish it Would Rain [ purchase ] When I attended high school in the 1960s as a “military brat” in Japan, I would...

Jeb Loy Nichols : As The Rain [ purchase ] My last post discussed a memorable concert that I attended with my whole family in 2004,...

                       Jackie Leven :   The History of Rain (purchase link) At last, a reason to post an offering from my h...

Alzo and Udine : Rain ( De Rain)    [purchase] Some "strum and be happy" pop from the NYC combo Alzo And Udine captures t...