[ purchase ] Tom T. Hall has been called the Nashville Storyteller.  To me, he’s the last great storyteller Nashville will probably eve...

purchase [ The Robins: Riot ... ] The Robins and Elvis Presley were hot a little before my time. Now, that doesn't mean I couldn...

Rufus Thomas : Walking The Dog [ purchase ] At this point, Rufus Thomas is probably best remembered for this fun, nursery rhyme influ...

Sure, you know this, of course you do. You may have sung it as a child; it certainly sounds as if you should have sung it as a child. I d...

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

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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...

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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...

purchase [ Another Log on the Fire ] Fame is fickle. B.B. King had it, C.L. Blast missed it. He had a knack for music - but no luck to...

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...