The Monotones : (Who Wrote) The Book Of Love [ purchase ]  My father loved this song. He grew up in Brooklyn during the heyday of doo-wo...

  Holy Love You possibly or, more likely, probably don't know the song. It would be great if you do, and there may be some, but I fear t...

  purchase [ Jimmy Reed ] Thinking over the word <boss> and its connotations, it occured to me that the word probably came into the E...

Television : Little Johnny Jewel [ purchase ]  I scanned my list of potential subjects for this theme (read my last post if you don’t kn...

Sorry, guys, going out on a Springsteen free limb here, eager to see if there is any love for the bossa. To folk of a certain age, myself in...

Todd Rundgren : Bang The Drum All Day [ purchase ]  Unless a song immediately jumps into my head when our theme is announced (or if I had...

  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...