check out [ JFRocks ] Begun well before Thanksgiving, it only now occurs to me that many of you have by now shredded your turkey - th...

Rick Robbins : Low & Lonely [ purchase ] You know how in “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” Arlo sings that it: all started two Tha...

purchase[ Highway in the Wind ] Most everyone with some music background knows that Arlo Guthrie is the son of Woody Guthrie. Most ev...

Arlo Guthrie : Alice’s Restaurant Massacree [ purchase ] There comes a moment on Thanksgiving Day, right about noon, when my wife an...

Well is this the one to finally get me my marching orders? The 'Thanksgiving' theme is the one I generally sit out, it being a ho...

purchase [ Nine Lives ] In the end, not one trick or one treat, but two treats. Oh well... Halloween is well behind us as this SMM...

Change of heart here, I was originally going to do a treat track, something looked forward to, held with relish. Then I heard this , by chan...

Iggy Pop featuring Kate Pierson : Candy [ purchase ] And now here’s the Treat. That Iggy Pop wrote a catchy pop love song is more th...

Ms. Gilmore has had a couple of brief mentions here previously, but really deserves the option of a fuller piece, given the pleasure her...

UPDATED TO INCLUDE TV DEBUT purchase [ Why You Want To Treat Me So Bad ] Prince's <Why You Want To Treat Me So Bad> appea...

Genesis : A Trick of The Tail [ purchase ] So, my last post was about a band that started off very proggy, then gradually got poppier...

purchase [ Sweet Home Chicago ] Sweet Home Chicago is so old and such a classic that it almost rates as kind of trite to post it. An...

Supertramp : Take The Long Way Home [ purchase ] What exactly was Supertramp, anyway? They started out as a prog band financed by a m...

purchase [ Sweet Home Alabama ] If you are talking about coming home, you cannot dismiss this. Granted, I already have a name for pos...

Our Homecoming theme got off to a great start, but then seems to have wilted. So I propose to define it as “songs about coming home, or wa...

OK, so it was only when the facebook link to my last post alerted me that I realised Homecoming to be peculiarly and specifically an ame...

purchase [ Homeward Bound ] OK. Sorry. With this post I show my age, but I can't help myself. Simon & Garfunkel's [Parsl...

U2 : A Sort of Homecoming [ purchase ] “A Sort of Homecoming” is a strange song in the U2 canon. It was not a hit, it is rarely pla...

Ain't this just the saddest song, a heartfelt plea, no, a searing moan, from a fading and failing heart, stranded out on the road, ...

Glossary : Headstones and Dead Leaves [ purchase ] I’m trying hard to write about bands that I haven’t written about before, and this ...