The Clash : Train in Vain [ purchase ] Back when the original wave of punk rock was hitting the US, I took to saying that punk would die ...

Joe Satriani's Train of Angels has the driving force of trains. It has the driving force of Satriani's guitar style. The Inte...

WhaaaaatTF? Surely a serious muso (sic) site like this wouldn't mess up so big time as the above heading? Rod bloody Stewart, fer chriss...

  Robbie Robertson : Somewhere Down The Crazy River [ purchase ] Writing for three different music blogs often results in crossover p...

purchase [ Locomotive Breath ] I confess that I was old enough to be in the demographic of those who purchased the Monkees <Last...

J Shogren : God’s 9:05 [ purchase ] Our new theme may be deliberately ambiguous, but it gives me the perfect excuse to share a favor...

purchase [ Silver Linings ] Time's just about up for the <listen> theme and I confess I haven't found the time to go as ...

purchase [ Blow By Blow ] It may have been Beck-Ola that turned me on to Jeff Beck but I can't really single out a particular p...

Dar Williams : Are You Out There [ purchase ] Dar Williams is about 6 years younger than me, and grew up about 12 miles as the crow f...

Purchase Van Morrison's "Listen to the Lion"  or from the masterful St. Dominic's Preview Van Morrison's "L...

This has to be one of the most magical bits of riffing in music, I sooooo love this simple sounding casual wrist action, as patented by the ...

Pete Seeger : Listen Mr Bilbo [ purchase ] In the early part of the twentieth century, the Democratic Party was the one that welcome...

Purchase Listen to Her Heart I'm still grieving over the death of Tom Petty, so, though I've written about him many times, ther...

Spoilt for choice, really, songs about the radio abound all over, and it is the immediate word association I link to listen, watching or tou...

Sharon Clark : Do You Want to Know a Secret [ purchase ] The first word of this song is also our new theme: Listen. I can think of a...

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So here is a quandary for you, both the above are Tracey Thorn and both the above are the song entitled 'It's All True', ...

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Purchase Fastball, The Way How the time flies—October, already? For those of you living in normal climates, you are probably starti...

Pinataland : The Death of Silas Deane [ purchase ] Pinataland is a musical project headed by songwriter Dave Wechsler. Wechsler seek...