purchase [ Henley;s album of the same name ] Sometimes what is not stated is as clear as what is. Sometimes a place not mentioned is as ob...

I think this sort of meets the theme, even if the hidden place is a destination, if, as yet, unknown and, probably, unimportant. Driving som...

Lou Reed : Dirty Blvd. [ purchase ]  I’m sure that I was listening to some song that mentioned some place that wasn’t in the title when I t...

  purchase [ Housedog Music Presents ] Robert "One Man" Johnson is a personal guitar hero to me. The first time I took a stage to ...

Well, it's five years  since I, grudgingly it reads, gave this band any pentime, but, you know, time has been kind to their memory, a ne...

  purchase [ Casino / DiMeola ] purchase [ Electric Dreams / McLaughlin ] They blew me away. That's in the past tense, as in  - I don...

Why does the phrase "Guitar Heroes" always have me thinking the wanton destruction of guitars? I guess it’s my age, as the sure fi...

Gretchen Menn : Scrap Metal [ purchase ]  The guitar, of course, is the signature instrument of rock music, and it should also come as no ...

purchase [ Elephant Mountain ]   Emptiness can be cathartic. It can be debilitating. Kind of like the glass half full or half empty issue....

Empty/Strange Little Birds (2016) I don't think we have ever had much Garbage on this site. That might seem a dangerous place to start, ...

World turns black and white Pictures in an empty room, Your love starts falling down Better change your tune,  Reach for that golden ring Re...

Titus Andronicus : The Void (Filler) [ purchase ]  Titus Andronicus is a frustrating band. (Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus , a play that I...

Writing this on a windy, wet and bleak day in Shropshire, exhausted from a ramble around the Wrekin. Exactly the mood to bring on an attack ...

Whiskeytown : Empty Baseball Park [ purchase ]  When I suggested the Empty theme, it was prompted by watching sports in empty stadiums, an...

  purchase some Steve Martin [ The Crow ] purchase some Tommy Emmanuel[ Guitar Mastery of ~ ] Like at least one other of my associates here...

  Sting was famously a teacher, something the lyrics, and video, of the Police hit Don't Stand So Close make no small reference to, alt...

Ramones, Rock n Roll High School A lot of songs about high school are delinquent, party songs, or about hating teachers, rebellion and learn...