purchase [ Miserlou ] In a way, Seuras' post about the UK Music Hall of Fame belatedly informed me about my choice, causing me to que...

Still puzzling over the R&RHoF shindig and the hotness under the collar as to who and who hasn't been elected. I even read a little ...

First there’s the organ and drums, followed by the gut-busting notes from the electric guitar, then everything slows down and you hear the r...

Richard Thompson : The Poor Ditching Boy Los Lobos : Will The Wolf Survive? [ purchase Henry The Human Fly ] [ purchase How Will The Wol...

Always a bit baffled by the annual shebang of the Rock Hall of Fame, not least as it cuts so little ice over this side of the pond. Or maybe...

King Crimson : The Court of the Crimson King [ purchase The Condenced 21st Century Guide to King Crimson 1969-2003 ]  I think that it was ...

  purchase [ The Best of Little Feat ] Do we need a little background on the HoF before we explore why a band/artist who "rightly...

  purchase [ Under My Thumb ] In our <Cops> theme, I must have Googled "police" and <rolling stones> while I was cons...

[ purchase Live at the Shoals Theare ]  If you know me, or have read my blog posts (and frankly, there are too many to link to), you proba...

Woah, such a tough project, this one, trying to come up with a theme with teeth, thinking my way through what if electricity had yet to be i...

Buddy Holly : Crying, Waiting, Hoping (Apartment Tapes version) [ purchase ] This may be the hardest theme we’ve tackled here, and I’ll ...

I thought there was another week in this theme, so ye'll be spared one of my monster posts of obtuse verbiage and arcane detail: this is...

  purchase [ Sorrow Tears and Blood ] Fela Ransome Kuti.  The name is enough to make you want to Google it.  Fela Kuti (although he was us...

I can't think of cops without robbers, the pairing being as intrinsic as salt and pepper, fish and chips and rock and roll. So, for me, ...

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  purchase [ Fresh Cream ] I really, honestly had not planned it so that it would so coincidental, but  .. back to Wheels of Fire because Ja...

 Flutes tend to get a lot of stick these days, whether hewn from a stick or crafted in the finest bamboo, brass or even bone. They just aren...