Grateful Dead: Truckin' [ more free media from this same concert @ the Internet Archive ] Give or take a year, most aficionados...

The Tallest Man on Earth : King of Spain [ purchase ] One of the casualties of having children in college, and a mortgage, and a house...

Soft Machine : We Did it Again [ purchase ] Yes : Beyond and Before [ purchase ] As we wind down the In Memoriam theme and...

Miles Davis flirted with fusing jazz and funk on his 1972 album On The Corner .  Donald Byrd--who died last February at age 80  - had a...

[ purchase The Gathering Storm - The Album Art of Storm Thorgerson ] [ purchase the iconic Ramones T-Shirt ] They were both art...

  The Doors: Light My Fire (live) [ Purchase ] Ray Manzarek, the Doors' keyboard player passed away in  May 2013. Granted, t...

The Law : King Size Cigarette   Scruffy the Cat : My Baby She’s Alright [ purchase a tribute/benefit album ] 2013 saw its share of f...

Cajun Moon : J.J. Cale Purchase hint.... I'll freely confess that I first came across ol' JJ through the works of one Clapton...

Tanner Patrick: Jinglebell Rock [It's at SoundCloud] I grew up in a household where Christmas music meant Handel’s “Messiah”, ...

Darlene Love : Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) [ purchase ] If the Band song I wrote about earlier isn’t my favorite holiday song, t...

White Christmas: The Wailers Purchase link I love the incongruity of this on so many levels. Firstly the whole idea of snow in Trencht...

The Band : Christmas Must Be Tonight [ purchase ] So many “modern” original holiday songs are arch or ironic, or are novelties or are ...

R.E.M. Toyland [From the Fan Club Only Single]    Starting in 1988 R.E.M. rewarded its fan club members with Christmas singles....

For the past few years, I have been the glad recipient of postings from Santastic. Although the mashup genre may not be your bag, it cer...

Los Lobos : One Time, One Night [ purchase ] Los Lobos deserve to be considered as one of the greatest American rock bands of all time...

POG AON OIDCHE EARRAICH : RUNRIG Purchase link I'm feeling a bit stuck in this folkie groove, worried whether I should feel worri...

Albion Band: Gresford Disaster Purchase link No, I am not evoking "Disasters" to equate with my sausage-fingered rambling...

[Purchase] It may be Tony Bennett's signature tune, but "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" has been recorded by t...

The Mountain Goats : Golden Boy [ purchase ] This is one of those songs that inexplicably has grabbed me. If you are not a Mountain G...

Sugarcane Harris: Where’s My Sunshine [ purchase ] Papa John Creach: Bumble Bee Blues [ purchase ] As the unofficial keeper of...