Another rabbit warren of antique archaicism to fall down today, as we grasp at the few straws offered by Tin Pan Alley to the Pauls of this ...

St. Paul & The Broken Bones : Broken Bones & Pocket Change [ purchase ]  When a musician leaves the stage and heads into the crowd...

  purchase [  Volunteers ] From what I have read, Paul Kantner was the driving force behind the Jefferson Airplane/Starship. Obviously neith...

Yeah, me neither, but it is what it is, and gives an obtuse pleasure more profound than, say, "Types of Horse" or "Continenta...

Latin Playboys : Paula Y Fred [ purchase ]  When brilliant roots rock/Americana/Latin band Los Lobos joined forces with producer Mitchel...

  purchase [ Let It Bleed ] Shelter without the elephant in the room? Well ... Jordan *did* once bring it up with a post about the one and ...

 At times of terror and turbulence we, as humans, often seek solace or succour from a higher power, quite whatever that might be. And, no, t...

  purchase[ 57th and 9th ] We are thinking about refugees this week: people seeking shelter. Sadly, issues like this come to the forefront ...

The Dexateens : Shelter [ purchase ] I seem to be writing about my song selection process a lot lately, which may mean that I’m trying t...

 Yes, I know it's a cover. In fact, all but one of the songs on her first album are covers, arguably all the more surprising, with her s...

  purchase [ Quintet/Sextet ] Bitches Brew was the first that I heard (of) Miles Davis. It must have been mid '70s. Much later, I saw h...

  OK, so a bit of international licence here, an entente cordiale to fit the subject, which, like a kinky boot, it does, très snug. I love a...

 Every now and then I forget my audience (!?!) and revert to type, with arcane and counter-intuitive posts that, often, involve injudicious ...

Although the month of March is named after the Roman god of war, Mars, while the English verb “to march” is derived a different source, the ...

  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 ...