"Phew, what a scorcher" is the traditional newspaper headline whenever the UK "swelters" in balmy tropical temperatures...

  Jill Sobule : When They Say We Want Our America Back (What The F#%k Do They Mean?) [ purchase ]  It’s been a while since I’ve gone off o...

And I still haven't got around to seeing them, either? Them? Human League. (Or is it The  Human League, I never quite grasping? A bit li...

  purchase [ Boston ] The band named Boston doesnt seem to have been dissected much here and maybe that's not such a surprise. Most fol...

Spiral Starecase : I Love You More Today Than Yesterday [ purchase ]  My blogging lately has really slowed. Typically, around this time...

Huh, me and my headings, eh, always the smart arse..... But, y'know, I think the performers of this song would want that, being ineffabl...

Dum dum da dooby dum dum, is that how it goes? You know it does, of course, one of those terific songs that, no matter your age, evokes simp...

  purchase [ Luck of the Draw   ] Bonnie Raitt ranks very high among my favorite musicians, slide players and vocalists, but I have said tha...

The Only Ones : Another Girl, Another Planet [ purchase ]  If you are a regular, and long-time, reader of Cover Me , this piece may seem a l...

  purchase [ Alone Together ] My life is going through some major changes, but that's not where this ostensibly expired theme came from....

 Well, there's a thing, there I am, trying to see if I have it in me to squeeze out a second post, appreciating the wire is close. So, a...

The dB’s : Change With The Changing Times [ purchase, if you can ]  As my friend and multi-site blogging colleague Seuras pointed out, I d...

In a move that feels akin to eating out of Jordan's lunchbox, I'll be quick before he notices I have encroached upon his sole operat...

  Nothing to click here purchase [ J ohn Coltrane  ] How to return Seuras' favor ? The themes are often my choice - with some co-conspi...

I may be six weeks or so early, or, then again, actually I guess I'm really six weeks shy of a century late. 06/06/1922, a date that sca...

ELP : When The Apple Blossoms Bloom In The Windmills Of Your Mind I’ll Be Your Valentine [ purchase ]  You might have noticed that I’ve lon...

Us crack team of world weary scribes often have a little virtual chat around the introduction of each new theme. For this one, as the (curre...

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...