purchase [ Time Loves a Hero ] The phrase <rocket in my pocket> is pretty suggestive. The lyrics themselves ... not so much. He...

Too tenuous? Well, how else can you fly to the sun other than by rocket? Plus, I've been dying to post this song for aeons. I first...

Hang on, I hear you mutter, that's a song by Bruce Cockburn, pride of Canada, and it's already had a shout here, why, a mere 12 year...

Billy Preston : Outa-Space [ purchase ] When I was 10, in the summer of 1971, my parents sent me to sleep away camp for the first time...

Well, this is a first, as I have never knowingly sat and listened to anything by this venerable institution of a band, finding the pictures ...

purchase[ the album ] The first records for Star Maker Machine in the Wayback Machine date back to 2008. That's less than the ...

Magazine : Twenty Years Ago [ purchase ] I’m pretty sure that I first started paying attention to the band Magazine in 1981, when thei...

OK, OK, a bit obvious, but I can think of a dozen and two thirds reasons why it has legs aplenty, perhaps even enough for two crabs. Plus, a...

Tony Glover is one of those who influence behind the scenes- not a name that most people have heard. However, people in the music busi...

It is the early to mid '70s, an awkward time for the awkward young men with a penchant for the music of the day and earlier. Probably a ...

Fats Domino : The Fat Man [ purchase ] Despite Nashville’s self-proclaimed title as Music City, I think that New Orleans might have a ...

A deceptively simple song, with a picked acoustic guitar and a rudimentary organ, a repetitive whisper, barely crooning over the top, yet...

purchase [ Goats Head Soup] My memory told me that <Goats Head Soup> followed <Exile on Main Street>. Must have been one o...

purchase [ Stadium Arcadium ] And here I thought this song was all about winter conditions. It was my son who introduced me to the R...

We interrupt the Ice & Snow theme for our fifth annual listing of the most viewed posts of the prior year. Through our (usually)...

Quite a metaphor, that, uncertain which is the dominant force, whether it is sugar sweetening the destructive power of an iceberg, or a the...

Hüsker Dü : Ice Cold Ice [ purchase ] There are many truisms in the world of music fandom, and one of them is that when a “punk” band s...

When I think of snow and ice, I think of Scotland. And when I think of Scotland, I think of Jackie Leven. Yes, I have mentioned him before ...

Rockpile : A Knife and Fork [ purchase ] I took some time off from this blog over the summer, so for the Leftovers theme I’m trying ...