Purchase Shooter Jennings, "Fourth Of July"  Shooter Jennings, heir apparent to the legit country music crown, is doing his...

Milton Brown : Shine On Harvest Moon [ purchase ] Leon Redbone : Shine On Harvest Moon [ purchase ] Asylum Street Spankers ...

Nanci Griffith : Armstrong [ purchase ] It isn’t a particularly profound or original observation to point out that 1969 was a pivotal ...

Can it really only be 16 years since the Decemberists first peered around the corner into existence? Strangely, and I speak as a fan, i...

purchase [ New York Tendaberry ] As Darius notes, there are plenty of great July 4th songs to choose from, but that was never my per...

Joan Baez : Money For Floods [ purchase ] Richard Shindell : Money For Floods [ purchase ] We’re About 9 : Money For Floods ...

Electric Light Orchestra : Fire On High [ purchase ] Regular readers of my work here and elsewhere know that I’m a fan of prog rock, a...

[ 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...

purchase [ Speaking in Tongues ] It seemed such a no-brainer to include Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues that I feared it had alread...

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...

purchase [ This Diamond Ring ] Most 60s music doesn't light my fire - except in that it is seminal. Some of the best of today...

Well, my tried and tested has again come up trumps, the old my i-tunes library search model. This at least has the advantage of knowing ...