There is a Turkish saying about the month of March that goes like this: it'll make you look (longingly) out the door and cause you to ...

Well, I had to, really, a no-brainer and no choice, having displayed one side of the coin so recently .... If Edinburgh is the yin to Glasgo...

Anthony Phillips : Which Way the Wind Blows [ purchase ]  I’ve been having trouble with this theme (and, based on the lack of posts, I’m...

 If you can take the weather with you, why can't you take it away again? I guess it depends who you are, but the idea has no traction wi...

  purchase [ Greatest Hits ] The Lovin' Spoonful name has an "interesting" provenance - according to some sources. Not quite ...

Are You Loving' Me More, But Enjoying' It Less/The Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes must be one of the best names for a band ever...

Nanci Griffith : The Loving Kind [ purchase ]  Every once in a while, I’m struck when something that seems so incredibly wrong still exis...

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...