Did Lindisfarne ever mean much in the U.S.? I have little idea and suspect not, but, for a brief window, early, early 70s, they were huge...

Tom Waits : Way Down In The Hole [ purchase ] [ purchase The Wire soundtrack, with 4 of the 5 versions used in the credits ] This yea...

          Purchase Burning Down, by REM REM’s “Burning Down” is an interesting song with a patchwork history, and i...

purchase [ The Last Record Album ] I hadn't intentionally pre-planned continuity from my last post to this one, but - as the ...

purchase [ I Cant Stand the Rain ] Maybe we have had enough of the rain. Maybe some of the news pundits are right about how the mai...

Linda Ronstadt : You’re No Good [ purchase ] So far, it seems like all of our posts on this topic are self-critical—I can’t dance, I c...

Purchase: Lucinda Williams' "Can't Let Go", from Car Wheels on a Gravel Road Print: " Lucinda Williams, Car ...

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That much is true, and I have tried, Lord, I have tried. Indeed there have been times when I tried so hard, I thought I could, the joy and s...

purchase [ Get Happy ] There was a time - about 20 years back - when Elvis Costello and Talking Heads were what I mostly listened to....

Blind Faith : Can’t Find My Way Home [ purchase ] I have not been the moderator here for quite some time now. Usually, that doesn’t ...

  Sting : Shadows In The Rain (studio version) [ purchase ] For those who remember 2012, I mentioned in a post that one of the first...

purchase [ Got Live If You Want It ] Various online sources note the horn section on the Stones' <Have You Seen Your Mother B...

Sometimes the opportunity of a theme is as maybe more around promoting an artist, as much, if not more, as is the song used to fit the pu...

Purchase: Shadow of a Doubt (Complex Kid) , by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Writing this, I have to say, I feel a bit like a shadow...

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[ purchase ] I’ve written about Gong before , a couple of times, and mentioned them in passing . They are a band that I really enjoy...

No longer available! I succumbed to the initial "The Shadows" options. Granted, there are fewer and fewer people who woul...

Was (Not Was) : Shadow and Jimmy [ purchase ] What lurks in the shadows? For the next two weeks, we will be shadowing musicians as t...

purchase [ Chicago Transit Authority ] (because the whole album is a classic, not just this song) Chicago, at one one of their more po...