In 1965 Johnny Cash recorded his 1956 #1 country single "I Walk The Line" in German. Fifteen years earlier, Cash was assig...

   In a performance that spoofs Laurence Olivier's Richard the III, Peter Sellers recites "A Hard Day's Night" on a 1...

This song is somehow so apposite of 1965, a gruff yet never more Dylanesque slice of protest, replete with frantically strummed acous...

Two classics for you in a short post before time's up for the current theme: I've posted more than once here about FZ and still...

[ purchase the Wrecking Ball version ] [ purchase the Live in New York City version ] I was on vacation in Nashville last week and was ...

A change from some recent jottings, as I ease myself back into something at least resembling a comfort zone, avoiding the scatter gun of ...

Big Bands—small facts: I am related to Guy Lombardo . Mr. New Year’s Eve and his Royal Canadians. Lombardo, among other musical accomp...

Apropos the last posting, and the conclusion that none of us should be without a horn section, this is something I have only recently come...

Rebirth Brass Band : The Main Event: Tornado Special/Waterfalls/Ooh Nah Nay/Rebirth on Fire [ purchase ] I’ve often, and probably ann...

What is most elemental about summer? For me, it’s getting out on the road and being gone gone gone. Like one of our other blogg...

What fun! Against sense or justification I find myself with time to continue a trawl through some more of the elements. I am intrigued b...