purchase [ One by One ] For someone who for many years had one foot in Seattle, I know relatively little about the local music scene. My ...

  purchase [ Night Ride Home ] A tip of the hat to our own Seuras Og, who undoubtedly would have given you a different take on this one, but...

Nothing like a bleak and misty January morn to instil a sense of hopelessness. No, scratch that, not hopelessness, more inevitability. Hopel...

Woody Gurthrie : The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done [ purchase ]  I’m staying in the political song area again, but this time somet...

Stevie Wonder : You Haven’t Done Nothin’ [ purchase ]  I’m still trying to wrap my head around this theme—“Done” would have made sense to ...

 I think it probably the garbled syntax that attracted me first to this song, having always a love for the vagaries of language and how it c...

  Phil Spector left behind a number of things he'll be remembered for. For most people who follow music, the first would be the Wall of ...

George who? Well, you might have known him better as the Commander, Cody, that is, the laconic, cigar chomping leader of his Lost Planet Air...

[ purchase ]  On New Year’s Eve, my wife and I watched Being the Ricardos , the new film about Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, directed by A...

  We interrupt the annual In Memoriam theme for our seventh annual listing of the most viewed posts of the prior year. Through our (usuall...

Jon Hassell/Brian Eno : Chemistry [ purchase ]  Kansas : Cheyenne Anthem [ purchase ] Brand X : Nuclear Burn [ purchase ]  Part of it, ...

When I wrote this piece , a little over 3 years ago, I had little inkling I would be now having to pen this one, so well did appear the near...

  purchase [ Mary Mary - the Monkees ] This Mary-Joseph post was begun the day the theme went live. It's been sitting - waiting for ins...

The Beatles : Let It Be [ purchase the basic version ] [ purchase the Super Deluxe version ]  It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, as we m...

I may have said this before, here if not here, but Hey Joe is my favourite song and has been for as long as I recall. The simplicity of the...

Have you guys had Line of Duty yet? Any UK readers will, of course, be well aware the long running and entertaining police procedural, extol...

[ purchase ] Since I started writing here almost exactly 10 years ago (my first piece, a holiday post about The Roches’ Christmas album ...

If you are of a certain age (old) and in the UK, there is the classic line: "They think it's all over; it is now!" It refers t...