Photo by Katharine Swibold Last week, I stretched our Hard theme as a way to discuss the founding of a new jazz club in my hometown. T...

Otis Redding : Hard to Handle [ purchase ] Oh. I remember that when I first heard the Blues Brothers do this song, I wondered why ...

This took me back in an instant. Forget what David Hepworth says about 1971 , for a brief window 1989 was the year and well nigh wonderful, ...

purchase [ It's Hard ] One of the first cassette tapes I ever bought for my brand-new SONY Walkman back in 1982 was the Who's...

purchase [ Heroes Are Hard to Find ] How our music tastes can change over time. Fleetwood Mac's <Heroes Are Hard To Find>...

Hard Times Come Again No More is a song that dates from well before the Great Depression, but it’s easy to see why you might not think so....

Nooooooooooo, not that one! This is no syrupy Sedaka or claggy King, this is Studio One, Kingston, Jamaica, Hortense and Alton Ellis, a...

[ purchase ] I’ve written many times about how lucky I am to live in Tarrytown, New York, in part because the Tarrytown Music Hall is wi...

[purchase Shake Me Up ] Little Feat was/is/has been one of my favorite sounds of all. From my reading, critics seem to fall into two ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers : Hard to Concentrate [ purchase ] There is the classic way to propose marriage. The man gets down on his knee...

Tom Paxton : One Million Lawyers [ purchase ] Dire Straits : Millionaire Blues [ purchase ] Bare Naked Ladies : If I Had a M...

purchase [ A Day At The Races ] I don't recall every having bought a Queen album. I've made it this far with the basic awarene...

The Feelies : Raised Eyebrows [ purchase ] I suggested this theme (or something like it), thinking that there were large numbers of so...

Giles Giles and Fripp : One in a Million [Purchase] 1968's  The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp  is one of the...

Rather than approaching this theme with the standard  "songs with million" in the lyrics/title, I decided to educate myself j...

Folk seem to be suggesting there aren't that many songs about millions, so it was with some relief I tapped into my i-pod search and ...

Jim Boyd : A Million Miles Away [ purchase ] [ purchase Reservation Blues ] For our new theme, I went to YouTube and did searches ...

Rory Block : The Golden Vanity [ purchase ] Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, Ed Trickett : The Golden Vanity [ purchase ] Sam Kell...

Tommy Keene : Gold Town [Purchase]     In 1986, a year that jangly guitars were still all the rage on college radio stations l...

purchase [ Lulu ] [Un] fortuitously, this comes more or less upon Roger Moore's demise. I had already started in on this topic w...