purchase some essential [ Leo Kottke   ] Seems to me that the jump from Lion/Lamb to Leo is perfectly reasonable for our current them...

Uncertain whether I would be lion enough to manage this, given I have spent the last five days driving from my home, in the middle of Englan...

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble : Mary Had A Little Lamb [ purchase ] Ultimately, what underlies this blog, over its long histor...

Ever vigilant in my aim to extend my often anglocentric peccadilloes to a wider audience, I dare say The Men They Couldn't Hang may b...

[ purchase ] On the one hand, trying to write about the history of this song seems to be biting off more than I want to chew, and yet, d...

So many titles, so little time, so I thought I would cheat and sling in a threefer, three for the price of one, choosing three heads of roya...

purchase [ Aerosmith: Don't Want ... .] I'll go off on a tangent here ... A somewhat-warped tangent, but I think I still play ...

Fela & Afrika 70 : Mr. Follow Follow [ purchase ] Last year, I mused about the general lack of protest music, in the vein of CSN...

purchase [ Jackson Browne: Doctor My Eyes ] A number of my co-workers include their honorifics as part of their email signatures (Ph...

Being one myself, I am only too aware that a physicians title is wholly hono(u)rific, always enjoying the wrath of PhDs over said point, esp...

Spin Doctors : Two Princes [ purchase ] The Spin Doctors’ song “Two Princes” is catchy, fun and was a huge worldwide hit. It got a Gr...

OK, so I'm going to run with this idea of a named couple a little further, given the groundswell (ha!) of acclaim to my previous post, m...

purchase [ The Letter ] Even though I didn't grow up in the US, my American parents had those perforated, punch-out valentines c...

’Til Tuesday : Voices Carry [ purchase ] If you watched MTV in its early days, you almost certainly saw the video above, of ‘Til Tuesd...

Is there a more archetypal US couple than Jack and Diane? Well, of course, the answer is an unreserved yes, but, ignoring that, this couple...

Joe Jackson : Happy Loving Couples [ purchase ] Valentine’s Day comes during the end of this theme, so it seemed like a good time to l...

purchase [ Johnny Rivers Secret Agent Man ] Kind of in the middle of the James Bond/Man from UNCLE and Danger Man (in the UK) came Joh...

If, like me, you find a tot of melancholia is the best pick-me-up on a frosty February morning, you could do a whole lot worse than immer...

Ian Hunter : F.B.I. [ purchase the album at a very high price ] [ purchase just the song, at a reasonable price ] Growing up, as a go...

purchase [ Jefferson Airplane Takes Off] James Bond, The Man from UNCLE, Our Man Flint ... the 60s spawned an interest in spies that p...