The Gil Evans Orchestra : Voodoo Chile [ purchase ]  I’ve written about the cover of “ Little Wing ” that is on this album (or, at least ...

purchase [ Vinyl Tap ] My previous post, I interpreted the current theme as covers of a jazz classic. Here, a jazz band (well ... jazz-fusi...

After the last post there was only one possible follow on piece, to look at a brilliant and mesmerisingly accurate spoof on/homage to Brube...

  purchase [ Time Out ] In 1958, the Dave Brubeck Quartet did a tour of EurAsia that was sponsored by the State Department. Their trip inclu...

The suggestion offered from above was to look at covers of jazz standards, you know the sort of thing, bluegrass Brubeck , country Coltrane ...

Keith Jarrett : My Back Pages [ purchase ]  Over at Cover Me , in honor of Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday earlier this week, the staff, includ...

  purchase [ Talking Heads:77 ] It hasn't been easy finding a Talking Heads song that has not appeared on SMM before. A veritable Who...

Teenage Head (1971) Simpler days, simpler days; back in the 1970s chart music was still largely the domain of youngsters, largely, give or t...

 That's right, but not that one, not even a cover of that version, but as good a taster as any to the remarkable and largely unsung tale...

The Lemonheads : It’s A Shame About Ray [ purchase ]  In the mid-late 1970s, I was in high school (hey—I’m old! I turn 60 today!), becam...

  [purchase Fleetwood Mac (White Album] More than once here I have professed fealty to Fleetwood Mac. In the early '70s, Fleetwood was o...

  purchase [ The Iron Man ] Welp ... it looks like SMM posts for this theme never got in to the alternate meaning of <fast> timed to f...

  purchase [ Steppenwolf: The Second ] I'm of the age where Steppenwolf's <Born To Be Wild> was a head-banging hit (before ...

Buzzcocks : Fast Cars [ purchase ]  Last week, “ Fast Car ,” this week, “Fast Cars.” Despite the similarity in the titles, the songs cou...

Our head honcho here at SMM sends out our homework on just about every second Saturday, with a handy explanation of how it may be tackled: w...

Way the world's going, what we need and what we need now is some head's down, no nonsense, mindless boogie. (No, not that one .) Aft...

Tracy Chapman : Fast Car [ purchase ]  This is my third piece in a row focusing on a Black woman. I’m not sure why, but I realized the ot...

As I read Jordan's last piece , erudite and informative, it got me a'thinking around the other taboo subject in popular song, seemin...

  purchase [ The Who By Numbers ] When I purchased my own first "stereo" back in '71, the merchant included a copy of "Wh...

Memphis Minnie : My Butcher Man [ purchase ]  There’s a long history in music of songs with double entendre lyrics. Now, Cardi B. and Meg...