purchase [ Second Helping album ] It seemed to me that there were a lot more choices for the 2017 <In Memoriam> theme than for ...

I've a sneaky feeling this possibly unfamiliar name may mean more to the cinephiles out there than to the musos. I'd like to hop...

Steve Hackett : A Tower Struck Down [ purchase All Things Must Pass, the Tower Records documentary ] [ purchase Hackett's Voyage o...

I'm going to cheat a little here, but about a year and a half ago, I wrote a piece about the opening of Jazz Forum , a jazz club in T...

purchase [ No More Changes ] Can you identify a musician's "signature style" just by hearing them play on a particula...

We interrupt the Un-Sainted Nick theme for our fourth annual listing of the most viewed posts of the prior year. Through our (usually) ...

To nick is to steal in my land. That is, amongst myriad other meanings, including, bizarrely, to arrest someone and put them in THE nick, a ...

Nick Lowe : Christmas At The Airport [ purchase ] I’m sort of doctrinaire about the creeping expansion of holidays. I’ve accepted Pre...

purchase [ Nick of Time ] Well ... here's a new word for you that you probably won't ever need, but if you were to remember to...

Christmas is so often a time of extras when it might be better looking for less. I'm looking at your plates and your glasses. (OK, yo...

I veer from the standard "post a song with extra" because I just couldn't get into my original idea. It's not that Lou R...

Cracker : Eurotrash Girl [ purchase ] If you purchased Cracker’s 1993 CD Kerosene Hat and looked at the track listing on the back, yo...

purchase [ Eric Burdon - Spill The Wine ] I believe it was Darius who once noted that even a short post was better than none. I'...

[ purchase ] Last week’s Leftovers post was inspired by the I’m With Her concert my wife and I recently saw. Nine days later, we went...

Let's get this straight, tea is so not my cup of tea. I can't stand the stuff, being an avowedly (instant) coffee man. Yet it is ...

I knew this guy had to get a mention ahead of year end, having briefly invoked his spirit in an earlier post. But once again I fear I may...

[ purchase ] Usually, when I go to a concert, I have expectations. That’s because I’m a fan of the artist, and I have a sense of what ...

Curiously, this has almost the same title as the last song I wrote about in this theme, albeit in translation, confirming, if ever needed, ...

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...