Cheryl Wheeler : Defying Gravity Jesse Winchester : Defying Gravity [ purchase ] When released in early 2005, dreamy electric guitar ...

[Purchase] In the 1980's most indie rockers didn't dwell on love songs. To truly provide an alternative to the crap on ma...

Barnaby Bright : Gravity [ purchase the Gravity EP ] [ purchase The Longest Day (which also has the song) ] Last weekend, I was sitti...

[ purchase one of the albums that one of these songs is on ] I went a long time on this blog without repeating bands, but it gets harde...

What if we went to Italy: Mary Chapin Carpenter Purchase it here! Have to confess the idea of a road trip to europe seems somewhat le...

  Robert "One Man" Johnson: Istanbul Grey [purchase: from Amazon ]   I present a one-of-a-kind clip produced just for y...

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...