Reason to Believe

 Heard this today for the first time in, I dunno...40+ years? A fellow fan of legendary drummer Jim Gordon shared it.  And I have to say, ev...

 There are a lot of artists that I love but where I just don't really care about their outtakes or alternate takes or b-sides or raritie...

Protest songs are nothing new for Bruce Springsteen. An argument could be made about which was his first officially released—was it "Lo...

   

Every once in a while, the impossible happens, and I think, hey, you know what? I think maybe I overrate Bill Berry slightly.  And then I li...

I love extended endings to rock songs. The kind of codas you never really see coming and aren’t exactly “needed” at first glance, but just a...

Recently I was listening to a Bob Dylan cover by a really great artist and was disappointed to realize it left me cold. And it occurred to m...

 This is old and the greatest thing I have ever seen. 

 I cannot believe this is where we are now.  "When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be w...

 I obviously can't claim to know what John Denver would or would not have liked...and yet I'm positive he would have been delighted ...

 As is known by one and all, NRBQ's "Ridin' in My Car" is objectively perfect.  But who knew that a source of its perfecti...

Nothin' to add. Just stumbled across this today and here 'tis.  Well, I guess I'd add that it must be weird to be as talented a ...

This is an unexpectedly effective cover of one of Bruce Springsteen's great songs of this century. Steven alters the melody in small but...

I have to assume Dave Gilmour sent his part in with the understanding that Ice-T would use the bits he liked best.  Which apparently, and un...

 The man who did a great job replacing the irreplaceable—an original Replacement—has left the stage. "That's all there is." 

This.  This is how it's done. This is a cover.  “I could really feel the heaviness of the song and I wanted to inject a little touch o...

“For his busy dreams were filled With the rooms he’d yet to build.” — Kris Kristofferson, “Darby’s Castle”   It’s funny, I can tell you with...

 So a while back I wrote : I've heard a few good covers (Jimi Hendrix, Green Day), a couple okay (the Rolling Stones' version actual...

I've been a Beatles fan for well over 40 years now and I don't think I'm just flattering myself when I say I'm a pretty hard...

Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty. Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty. Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty.  Guilty. Guilty. ...