Since we’re now on the penultimate day of the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel), I wanted to take a moment to say a few things about this whole...

I’m playing catch-up right now because my dearest friend, Adriel Trott (featured in the post for Day 15 of this 30 Day Song Challenge), has been visiting me here...

The thing about a good workout song is that it has to be semi-fast (but not too fast) and it needs to have a pretty steady beat.  No matter...

Prince Rogers Nelson, formerly “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”, now known just by his mononym “Prince” again, is the sexiest artist I know.  For music fans of a...

I doubt I would have said this 10 or 20 years ago, because I was too young and too stupid and too stubborn and far too proud then, but...

It’s really no mystery to anyone who knows me how much I dislike Taylor Swift, today’s pick for the most overrated artist I can think of.  Also, if you...

Finally, FINALLY, today I’ve been given a prompt that makes for an incredibly easy pick.  I’m sure there are a million artists or bands that have never achieved the...

My self-imposed ban on repeating songs that I chose in the original (June 2011) version of this Challenge is making it more and more difficult every day to match...

For a few years in my 20’s, I dated and lived with a Deadhead.  And I’m not talking about some amateur, weekends-and-summers only, tie-dyed, wake-and-bake, jam-band fan.  I’m talking...

I really dislike the designation “best friend.”  I can’t entirely explain why but I’ve always felt like it’s an impossible-to-determine category.  What makes a good friend the “best”?  The...

I have a whole complex theory about breakups, the first and most important axiom of which is that breakups hardly ever “take” on the first time.  As a rule,...

It’s hard to think about “holiday” songs in the middle of June– in Memphis— so today’s entry will be brief.  I’m picking a Christmas song, not because Christmas is...

Today is a two-fer in my picks for the 30 Day Song Challenge, in part because the prompt itself is a compound prompt.  I’ll just say in advance that...

As I said back on Day Four of this challenge, my picks for the last three days can pretty much be taken as mix-and-matchable.  All three suffice for all...

First things first, if you don’t know the story of that Vancouver Kissing Couple to the left, one of the greatest stories and images of the last decade, read...

I’m really glad I was born at a time that allowed my life to span two millennia.  I sometimes think about my historical counterpart 1000 years ago.  She would...

Let me just begin with the plot-spoiler for today’s post: I do not love 80s music. In fact, there is very little about the 80s in general that I...

Ahhhhh, the 70s.  Among many other things, it was a great decade for babies.  Including and especially yours truly.  I was born the same year as the Roe v....

Perhaps the only thing more difficult than picking out a single “favorite” song from an entire decade of music is trying to broadly summarize that decade for these accompanying...

I don’t own, and never have owned, a convertible.  (That’s me and my bff Dana Gabrion in the picture here, on a truly epic trip I took to the...

I should say first that there is very little that I don’t like about rainy days.  I don’t find them dark or depressing or forlorn at all.  On the...

Today’s prompt in the 30 Day Song Challenge (The Sequel) is a little tough if you live in a place like Memphis. Why?  Because, if you live in a...

There’s very little that is more disappointing to a true music fan than when his or her favorite band records a bona fide stinker of a song.  When that...

Part of me wanted to object to beginning this Challenge with a band I don’t like, since that seems contrary to the whole spirit of the enterprise, but I...

[For those of you who’ve arrived here from a link, you can read below the initial “rules” of the 30 day Song Challenge (The Sequel)… but, more importantly, the...