Again, for me a no-brainer, if again bringing back to these pages a fella I have championed before. But with good reason, like Difford and ...

Richard Thompson : Yankee, Go Home [ purchase ]  This song has nothing to do with baseball, but regular readers of my writing know that I...

Neither the first nor, I suspect, the last time for me to feature Squeeze, a band who have given me as much pleasure as many, and continue s...

Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes : I Don’t Want To Go Home [ purchase ]  I mentioned a few weeks ago that I’d been spending a lot ...

  purchase [ Europe 72 ] Back when I was in colllege I had a guitar-playing friend named Dickster whose band focused on Grateful Dead covers...

The Clash : Janie Jones [ purchase ]  Although my name Begins With A J, I decided not to write (more) about myself, because I do tend to ...

I started thinking this post, moving on through the pantheon of female names, and it should be Jezebel, and I might yet get round to that. B...

This old band infrequently get a mention in these pages, usually in conjunction with a mention of Graham Nash , the erstwhile manc turned go...

The Jags : Back of My Hand [ purchase ]  One of the fun things about writing for this blog is that I never really know where the piece is...

 "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...