purchase [ the band ] "A tad obvious" says our own Seuras, speaking of feathers and lead in his heavy/light post a few days back. ...

Hmm, a third week, a third challenge. Silly? Serious? Low-brow? High-brow? Light-weight? That’s it! Avoirdupois! Weight. Of course, as a nom...

It's on my bucket list to someday get to Australia and/or South Africa, where winter is in the summer and vice-versa. A kind of proof th...

Neil Young : Southern Man [ purchase ] Bob Dylan : Girl From The North Country [ purchase ] Bob Dylan w/Johnny Cash : Girl From The North ...

Apples are the opposite of bananas, right? Certainly little in common, what with colour, shape, taste, let alone the skin or the peeling. Ye...

purchase [ choose one (or two) ] Like Seuras, my thoughts gravitated to the quintessential, original pair of opposites. Unlike him, no car ...

 Too obvious? Maybe, but surely they are the original pair of opposites, as in in the beginning was and all that. And you can play around a ...

  purchase [ Centennial Collection ] I've spent a good part of the past week putting together a one-off special lesson about The Wester...

James Brown : Get On The Good Foot [ purchase ] I don’t like to dance, mostly because I look like an uncoordinated tub of Jello, and it has...

Unless you are super hard or super poor, all of us need some shoes on our feet, so as to protect our tootsies from the assaults of hot tarma...

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...