purchase [ Woody's version   ] <No, thanks> or <no thanks>. There is a difference. Syntax/punctuation matters. Actually, I...

 The Social Security website shows that naming your child Joe is in decline.  Over the last 20 years, it has moved from 315th most popular t...

  purchase [J oseph and the Multi-Colored ...] Well, at this point half way through the theme, we haven't recieved any flames about our ...

Concrete Blonde : Joey [ purchase ]  One of the things that made Joe Biden a compelling candidate (other than the fact that most people l...

Another short post, having me rue on the fact that most "Joe" songs, as alluded to in my last, involve heading down Mexico way, gu...

  purchase [ Smiley Smile  ] - I had totally forgotten they did this and I even once had a copy of the LP Wikipedia tells us that Smokey Jo...

  No, not, really not a snarky, snidey post at all, but a comment that might not have been out of place even as little as a year ago. And, h...

  purchase [ Martha and the Vandellas ] Where do you dance? Myself> at a wedding party, perhaps a similar party venue, like a year-end ce...

So who has listened to the original of this recently? Or seen the film? Decades ago would be my answer, it, West Side Story, being a staple ...

Talking Heads : Don’t Worry About The Government [ purchase ]  I am sooooooo worried about the government.  Four years ago, relying on pr...

  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, ...