Mandrill : Fencewalk [ purchase ] To put it mildly, our Forgotten? theme is off to a slow start. The problem, I think is the paradox...

Focus : Sylvia [ purchase ] The premise of our next theme is to highlight bands or musicians who had some degree of fame, but seem t...

Purchase Steve Earle's CCKMP A stark, unforgiving and unrepentant reflection on drug addiction and personal destruction: I cannot ...

Methamphetamine is still, for some, a remedy and, should you be obese and with a hyperactive attention deficit disorder, and for whom oth...

U.K. : Mental Medication [ purchase ] The original lineup of U.K. brought together some of the best at their instruments British pro...

The Clovers : Love Potion Number 9 [ purchase ] The Clovers started out before the rock and roll era, and became regulars on the rhy...

One might well question quite what medicine the band had in their pockets as you listen to this slow and dreamy waltz. Less the second co...

Dan Bern : Cure For AIDS [ purchase ] A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I went to see Karen Finley’s show, Grabbing Pussy (based ...

purchase [ Medicated Goo ] As Darius noted, music itself is a remedy for what ails you. And Steve Winwood has long been one of my favo...

Little Feat : Rock and Roll Doctor [ purchase ] Different people have different definitions of what constitutes feel good music. Cha...

[ 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...

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 ...