Vomit Launch : Stillness [ purchase ] Choosing a band name should be a big deal. You would think that deciding how you are going to b...

Tough assignment, boss! OK, could have been easy to wade into Wayne/Jayne  County  territory with some uber-punk swearies, but, on stripping...

Frank Zappa: Camarillo Brillo [purchase: Camarillo Brillo ] The Wiki informs us that Camarillo is the location of a mental institutio...

Buy the Valentines Buy the Huck Come on then, who remembers this, the original version  from 1982. I thought probably not, but it isn...

Sam and Dave : Rich Kind of Poverty [ Purchase ] I wasn't sure I would have time to post anything on the subject of  Income...

Bob Marley & The Wailers : No Woman, No Cry [ purchase ] After I was chosen to become the program director of WPRB, my friend Eri...

So, I'm just back from the 50th Cambridge Folk Festival. (Why, thank you, yes, it was marvelous. I may have mentioned I was going.......

How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live Purchase: [ Ry Cooder 1970 version ] I tell folks that I could listen to Ry Cooder ...

Bernard “Slim” Smith : Breadline Blues Del McCoury Band : Breadline Blues 2008 [ purchase ] Del McCoury Band's 20...

10 days back, in my haste to get a new theme out, I neglected to search the SMM archives: In fact, back in 2008, SMM did a "Johns...

If you have an hour to spare, this says it way better than I can Buy this early marvel John Wardle. You've never heard of h...

John Hiatt & The Goners : My Dog & Me [ purchase ] That handsome guy pictured above was named Strummer, after the great Joe, w...

[ purchase the Dick’s Picks version ] [ purchase the original Workingman’s Dead version ] The Grateful Dead are an incredibly polarizi...

John, eh? Big bad? B Goode? (Or even be good, Johnny*.) 99? Or should it be the still warm Winter, J, R.I.P, hoping it will be for someon...

Violent Femmes : Children of the Revolution [ purchase ] No matter how much you think you may know about music (or anything), you don’...

Play it here! Buy it here! (Of course it's on vinyl!!) We don't need a revolution in the summertime We don't need a rev...

Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock: Volunteers [ purchase ] the album I recently read an eye-opening article that relates to my “rev...