[ purchase Southeastern ] If you have spoken to me about music over the past year or so, you probably know that my favorite album of 2013...

King of the Road [ purchase ] It is standard lore that musicians on the road used to tend to excesses. It cannot be a great life: d...

(Sorry, but someone had to, from the ridiculous to the sublime...........) Alabama 3       Max Romeo Nancy Sinatra Tangerine D...

Buy the single!! Bit of a change here, rather than invoking the C word and it's inability to be left, or Zappas entire chain...

Jefferson Airplane : Third Week in the Chelsea [ purchase ] I am willing to bet that there is no other hotel or motel in the world tha...

[ Purchase ] Talking Heads were not the first band to record songs about buildings. On his 1973 album,  Se o Caso É Chorar ,...

The Rolling Stones: Memory Motel [ purchase ] Fool to Cry is probably my favorite from the Stones’ Black and Blue, but it doesn’t fi...

[ purchase their discography ] A few weeks ago, when I made the Case for Phil Collins , I mentioned Brand X, the jazz fusion group that ...

What you and I might call a side project may not be such a “side” for the musician himself: you could argue that Ry Cooder has been buil...

THE TWILIGHT SINGERS: TEENAGE WRISTBAND (LIVE) Purchase The Twilight Singers catalog here Action on the side is always a little dark...

Austrian Death Machine [ purchase ] Metal is full of silliness (see Spinal Tap , Steel Panther , or Gwar ) and the type of faux...

[ Purchase ] In those heavy touring days of the mid 80's, musical collaborations and deep friendships bloomed between memb...

Buy some early Fairport OK, there is no such band as Fairport Connections, but, challenged by Darius' post below, I thought it pert...

David Byrne: Eyes Wide Open [ purchase ] Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love [ purchase ] Jerry Harrison: Slink [ purchase ] Wh...

Buy a used copy ;-( Spoilt for choice here, so I simply went through my singles collection, gathering dust up on the shelf. And the...

Golden Smog : V [ purchase ] For the next couple of weeks, we will be writing about “Side Projects,” the musical projects that are cre...

[ Purchase "My Telly's Gone Bung" ] As far as I can tell, no one ever said that these had to be the "best" songs a...

The Ballad of Jed Clampett [ purchase ] I guess this skirts the edges of the theme, but I love the song and hope you do too.   The Ba...

The Tubes : Turn Me On [ purchase ] I will never forget the glee I felt when I started training at WPRB and was told that we had free ...

A boyhood friend of Buddy Holly, Sonny Curtis is best known for writing " I Fought The Law" for the Bobby Fuller Four. When y...