purchase [ Ubangi Stomp ] A confluence of auspicious days as I write/post. Today is Friday the 13th. Sunday is the Ides of March. B...

Now that we all know that it is often hard surfaces that carry the droplet particles we excrete contracted coronavirus out and about into th...

U2 : An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart [ purchase ] When you think about U2’s great debut album, Boy , “An Cat Dubh/Into The Heart” is probab...

"I'm Lucky, I'm Lucky", sang Joan Armatrading, "I Walk Under Ladders", on the song that gave the title, Walk Und...

So, looking ahead to next year, how can I and how will I serenade my significant? Of course, I wouldn't dream of singing myself, my Funn...

purchase [ Blue Valentines ] I've been turning this idea over in my head for 10 days: do... don't do .. do. I can't beli...

Miles Davis : My Funny Valentine [ purchase ] What makes a standard a standard? Clearly, there has to be something timeless about t...

Answering to the earlier post, oddly I think it apt we cover the event after the event. Valentines Day, or the Feast of St. Valentine, has n...

Old 97’s : Valentine [ purchase ] We’ve had a tough time getting this theme started, maybe because it began after Valentine’s Day. So,...

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 ...