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[ purchase ]  We'd like to welcome a new writer--Gregory W. Smith--to our ranks.  Here's his first post!! For the the...

Crash and Burn is a pretty popular phrase (Wikipedia says it's a "euphemism" for fail utterly, often with spectacle.) It...

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Ani DiFranco : Fire Door [ purchase ] I’m using this Ani DiFranco song, which mentions fire, as an excuse to write about the recen...

Now seems as good as any to fan the flames of the ultimate slow burn career of Ray LaMontagne, celebrating, roughly, his 15th year of record...

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purchase the whole album! [ Luck of the Draw] There are few living that can play a slide guitar the way Bonnie Raitt does. She'...

There are a number of songs that, if it's the right word, celebrate FLLD , foreign language learning disability. At least I think th...

Romeo Void : Talk Dirty (To Me) [ purchase ] Romeo Void briefly shone brightly in the New Wave world with a sound that mixed punk, da...

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purchase [ Diamonds Made From Rain] I thought I knew a lot about Eric Clapton, so it surprised me to come upon one of his songs I don...

Lawks, did I love this song, at least in it's Kenny Rogers edition, SWITD, both he and I being both too young to realise how utterly ...

[ purchase Hot August Night ] I’m willing to bet that the first time you saw The Last Waltz , there was a moment when you shook your hea...

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The Left Banke : She May Call You Up Tonight  [ purchase ] When you think of the Left Banke, if you do, you probably think about “Wa...

Disclaimer: This post might well contain folk music. May, both the day and the month, is big in british folk, with any number of songs ...