Some people love the desert. I am not one of those people.
Deep Cuts: Desert Songs
Deep Cuts: God Songs
You don’t have to look to gospel for songs with “God” in the title. I’m not a religious guy, and I have 9 hours of God songs just in my digital playlist […]
Deep Cuts: Tales Songs
Tales From the Crypt. Two-Fisted Tales. For a short period during my early twenties, “Tales” was the keyword in my working life. It’s also the keyword in a lot of music. I’m […]
Deep Cuts: A Million Songs
You didn’t think this was actually going to be a list of one million songs, did you? That’s almost as naive as trusting me with a million dollars. I wouldn’t have trusted […]
Deep Cuts: Soda Songs
“Wow, that’s a lot of Coke” turned out to be an ad for Little Caesar’s Pizza. In the finished commercial a nerdy dude holding a large tub of soda sits down and […]
Deep Cuts: Last Songs
Wow, last moments get a lot of action in music land. I have at least 150 “last” songs on my playlist, and that doesn’t include whatever’s in my vinyl stacks that remains […]
161. Cindy Incidentally
She was tall and fit, with big blue eyes and a slight overbite. She wore a thin white blouse that was losing the battle to subdue her curves, as were her Levis. […]
Deep Cuts: 1987
In story time we’re at 20 years after 20 years after Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. 1987 was a remarkably good year for music, a kind of intersection for the […]
Deep Cuts: Rocket Songs
Okay, so maybe the rockets of my childhood weren’t the kinds that shot monkeys into space. Why the hell were we firing monkeys into space, anyway? I’ll tell you why: because guys […]
Deep Cuts: Songs About Names
What’s in a name? I don’t know. Everything, nothing. All I know for certain is that the move from Jim to James was a liberating one for me. So what’s in a […]
Why It Matters 