purchase [ Outlaws and Angels   ] I cannot claim to be a die -hard Willie Nelson fan - but you would have to be from another planet to...

Shhh, can you hear that? No, me neither. Not even the sound of a dropped 'H' is assailing my ears. Which is nice, if sort of lonely....

Summer days, a holiday, time on your hands, so where does that take you? Yup, quite possibly here , happy juice, the water of life, the s...

I don't know about you, but I love playing with words, adding and subtracting the prefixes that conjure up meaning, sometimes discoverin...

purchase [ 461 Ocean Boulevard ] Andrew Jackson and John Milton are both credited with some version of "the mind has a life of i...

When I was a boy I was always suspicious of Marcs, feeling them to be a little affected in their ways, a name for hairdressers and models...

Squeeze : Take Me I’m Yours [ purchase ] I’ve always felt that Squeeze, despite some significant commercial success, never really got ...

Woah, this might cause some ruffles, SMM being often/usually/mostly a rap and hip-hop free zone, with the name above capable of causing reso...

So which Jones do you want? Mick , Mick(e)y, Mike or Michael ? And which do you expect? Let's be honest, Jones isn't such an unusu...

King Crimson : The Court of the Crimson King [ purchase In The Court of the Crimson King ] Fairport Convention : Time Will Show The W...

purchase [ Redbud Tree ] I like Mark Knopfler. I mean .. I don't know him to like him in that sense, but from back in the days o...

As in they coulda/woulda/shoulda, Trees were the band Fairport Convention could have been if Dave Swarbrick hadn't been knocking ab...

Happy The Man : Stumpy Meets The Firecracker In Stencil Forest [ purchase ] It has been a while since I’ve written about prog rock, an...

(It's extraordinary the things you discover in this job, one being the difference a space between 2 words can make. And the similarit...

(Merle Haggard version above) purchase [ Tom Jones ] <Green, Green Grass of Home> may well be the first Trees/Grass song tha...

purchase [ Martin, Bogan & Armstrong ] This one appears to be a classic in its own realm, but - judging from the fact that severa...

Belly : Feed The Tree [ purchase ] Belly was a band formed by Tanya Donnelly, who had been in Throwing Muses and The Breeders. They ...

I am never quite sure whether I prefer New Order as a sound or as an idea. If it is the former, it is definitely the spindly treble of the b...

purchase  [ Chavez Ravine ] File under: Songs that reference baseball Ryland P Cooder has always gone out of his way. Gone ou...