Lynyrd Skynyrd : What’s Your Name? [ purchase ]  Growing up in the 1970s, as I did, the life of a rock musician seemed pretty fucking cool...

Less on, more been, my excuse is down to the scourge of IT. (Others may vary.) As far as I’m concerned, the IT superhighway can go take one....

Funny how it all comes round. I used to rant against this song back in the day. As a dyed in the wool afficianado of the original Lindisfarn...

Actually, as the avid trainspotters will already have conjectured, and loudly, it is the other way around, it is Chant No.1 (We Don't Ne...

  purchase [ Dare ] There was an article in The Guardian the other day about the influence of the C64 (that would be the mid 1980s Commodor...

purchase [ White Album ] When it appears at the start of a sentence, don’t is a command - as opposed to its use mid-sentence, where it is mo...

Blue Öyster Cult : (Don’t Fear) The Reaper [ purchase ]  For the second post in a row, I’m writing about a band that I know pretty much n...

Me, I bloody loathe Eurovision. Eh, say a whole continent across the pond, Eurovision? OK, the Eurovision Song Contest, to give it the full ...

  purchase- from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- [ Some Loud Thunder ] Another quickie.  Due to the fact that - on the road - I have no access to...

  purchase [ Born to Run ] Faced with yet another theme where I have run the clock down to the buzzer, I am going to re-mention a song that...

I have always found the idea of the Flaming' Groovies decidedly enticing and enthralling. Even before they ever came into my personal ea...

  Thunderclap Newman : Something In The Air [ purchase ]  I suggested this theme during a summer thunderstorm, but when I started brainstorm...

purchase [ Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme ] purchase [ Deja Vu ]  I've got Spotify, but not seriously. My only "playlist"...

 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...