Laura Nyro: Wedding Bell Blues [ purchase Wedding Bell Blues ] When we first posited the Wedding theme, it seemed a natural that this...

[ purchase ] I’ve written about the Drive-By Truckers many times, maybe more than any other band, in part because they are one of my fa...

Percy Sledge : When A Man Loves A Woman [ purchase ] Last week, I went to a cocktail party celebrating the wedding of my wife’s cousin...

"there lived a lady in Scotland o my love, o my love there lived a lady in Scotland o my love so early there lived a lady i...

     OK: Here's a tune you'll want to play for anyone who comes near your computer today.    After leaving David Bowie's ...

After Dark, by Tito and Tarantula Purchase  Tito and Tarantula: Wikipedia describes them as an "American Chicano rock / ston...

Branford Marsalis Quartet : The Dark Knight [ purchase ] Today is Harvey Day. That means that Matt Harvey will be pitching for the ...

purchase Los Bravos: Black is Black It doesnt get much darker than black. Black, as when your baby's gone. When you are so blue th...

Eeek, what have I done? What was I thinking? Without even the excuse of living in the arctic, where light and dark have a different modus ...

Trawling back thru' the archives of SMM,  I am struck by how little attention has been given to both the band and it's frontm...

Coming to this theme direct from the last, immediately it becomes apparent how darkness holds so much greater imagination for the songwri...

Red Sparowes : Like The Howling Glory Of The Darkest Winds, This Voice Was Thunderous And The Words Holy Tangling Their Way Around Our H...

Richard and Linda Thompson : I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight [ purchase ] Richard and Linda Thompson : Shoot Out the Ligh...

Rocky Horror Picture Show : Over At The Frankenstein Place [ purchase the DVD ] Back in the late 1970s, when I was in high school, goi...

Yes, you got it, "that always shines on me", fab 60s BeeGee perennial, that struck me as a better response to Andy's exce...

Bruce Springsteen, "Shut out the Light" Listen Purchase Originally a B-side to “Born in the USA” but only widely ...

Frances Langford : Harbor Lights [ purchase ] Boz Scaggs : Harbor Lights [ purchase ] Bruce Hornsby : Harbor Lights [ purc...

Rev. Gary Davis : I Am The Light of the World [ purchase ] Many people just listen to music as background noise, or something to sing ...

I never knew why this guy wasn't huge. At this point I should point out I had no inkling of any earlier career, nor had even heard o...

Buy Toploader: Dancing in the Moonlight Buy Harvest King: Dancing in the Moonlight Light it is, this theme around. If you're...