I’m just going to go ahead and concede that I am also guilty of all the things I make fun of in this post. My pick for today is...

I’ll go ahead and concede, right here at the beginning, that I’m probably being more than a little unfair to my song-pick for today.  For the most part, I...

My choice for a favorite band will come as no surprise to readers of this blog.  I’m an unapologetic, unrepentant, unreserved and incorrigible Rolling Stones fan, through and through....

At this point in my life, I’ve been playing guitar for about twenty years.  I never had a lesson and I’m not what you would call a very good...

As anyone who has ever played in a band knows, performing cover songs can be a very tricky business.  Most of the time, you want your performance of a...

If you judged only by the tone of our public discourse, you’d have good reason to conclude that we’re a very angry country.  According to a recent study by...

That painting to your left is probably my favorite piece of 20thC art.  It’s “Sugar Shack” by African-American painter (and former NFL defensive tackle) Ernie Barnes. Barnes once described...

I’m not married, I’ve never been married, and I have no plans to ever be married. That said, I am a female born and raised in the American South,...

I promise that I copied today’s completely bizarro prompt word for word from the 30 Day Song Challenge list. Putting aside for the moment the absolutely horrendous grammar (“you...

A few years ago, I had the very good fortune to see Lucinda Williams play a show at the New Daisy Theater here in Memphis.  She was on tour...

Like a lot of people, I hardly ever actually “talk” on the phone, preferring text messages instead, and unless the incoming call is something I’m expecting or the person...

Hands down, today’s prompt is the hardest of the whole month.  I’ve written so much about music on this blog over the years that I really don’t know what...

Today is the first day in the 30 Day Song Challenge that I think I’m going to register a semi-controversial pick.  I know a lot of people who would...

I’ve gotten a few days behind on this month’s 30 Day Song Challenge, so today’s entry is going to be semi-brief, partly because I’m trying to catch up but...

That couch-full of awesome to your left is my best friend, Dr. Adriel Trott, mugging like a boss at one of my favorite local nightlife hangouts Mollie Fontaine’s. I met her...

I tried– and I mean I REALLY TRIED– not to pick a Beach Boys song today, but all my efforts were for naught.  Asking people to associate a song...

There’s a world of difference between something that’s funny and something that makes you laugh.  Over the past decade or so, the real magnitude of that difference has been...

[Ludwig von Beethoven and Friedrich Schiller] Today’s prompt in the 30 Day Song Challenge presents a very tall order.  A song that has a new meaning every time you hear it?...

I may be interpreting the 30 Day Song Challenge prompt (“a song that reminds you of something sad”) a bit liberally with my pick today.  As much as I tried,...

My selection for today is a song that, if you gave me nothing else but the title, I’d most likely say “yeah, I can relate to that.”  I’m picking...

Full disclosure: I picked my song today mostly just so I could force you to watch the video again, which features a FAR more sketchy and morally-questionable spelling-lesson than I remembered...

As a rule, I don’t like the category “Guilty Pleasure” when it’s applied to music.  You like the songs you like. Full stop. Most of the time, when asked...