purchase [ Crown of Creation ] Digging around for a possible alternative using the obstruction co-theme, what to my surprise but ... the A...

  purchase [ Paradise and Lunch   ] I find myself pre-disposed to prefer the Ry Cooder version of this because that's where I first hea...

 Hang on, what the bejasus has this to do with walls, I hear you say, the perfectly decent back to Bakersfield project by Jay Farrar and his...

  purchase [get   some Hank Williams   ] This week SMM's contributing vloggers have done a remarkable job skirting the obvious- we have ...

Purchase Head Over Heels --skip the middleman, buy from the band!  I love songs that work in dichotomy. Particularly, when the upbeat melody...

Can there be a more evocative intro to a song? The pizzicato guitar plucks, with then the rolling riff of the lead guitar, sounding exactly ...

Crowded House : Don’t Dream It’s Over [ purchase ]  When this theme was announced, I decided to write about the X song, “Once Over Twice...

 Well, you can try and draw some inference into this song and the exit of Agent Orange or, even, prematurely, I fear, to feel vaccines are a...

X : The Once Over Twice [ purchase ]  I think that the impetus behind this theme is the end of the Trump Error, and one of the things that...

  purchase  [ RJ's version   ] Because <In Memoriam> is kind of a coda to the year past, we might call this the first theme of the...

  purchase [ Tone Poems   ] My better half thinks I carry a jinx. Possibly: 2 years back, I played Tom Petty's <You Got Lucky> on ...

To say I am fond of pedal steel guitar would be an understatement; I bloody adore the instrument and how it sounds, whether as high lonesom...

Toots and the Maytals : Do The Reggay [ purchase ]  I suspect that like most American music lovers, my knowledge of reggae music is limit...

John Prine (October 10, 1946 – April 7, 2020) In a year like we've had, one filled with such division, anger, isolation, and death, it...

 Another good (wo)man done gone.... And another footle into the corridors of my consciousness, this probably little known name leaving a big...

  Since its formation in 1968, King Crimson has gone through many different lineups and musicians , and over the years, there has been some...

The saying always was that only the bad girls liked the Rolling Stones, which then needed a whole further category for the Pretty Things, as...