I think I mentioned once or twice or a hundred times that I was attending a local college as my excuse for being all but completely absent from my favorite website to be. This semester, I took “Popular Music in … Continue reading
My next offering from Janis Joplin is another song from Big Brother and the Holding Company’s 1968 double platinum sophomore release Cheap Thrills. It is also the next installment of my Summertime series featuring covers and related songs of that … Continue reading
Ah, the sweet, sweet voice of an angelic genius and poet embodied in flesh is how I view my next artist. To say that I worship her would be completely off the mark, I enjoy her great contribution to music … Continue reading
This song really amused me when I heard it and had I known it when I turned thirty many moons ago, I would have made it my anthem. Alas, that wasn’t meant to be… While ambiguously searching for the lyrics, … Continue reading
Alright! Alright already! Just put the cattle prod down and I won’t get hurt. I know who puts the Sad in Sadist you damn clown! Oh wait, I was supposed to be writing that for our upcoming autobiographical slash fiction. … Continue reading
Fan video: Now, “Hot Burrito #2″, now, now, this is a song. This my friends, is a fucking song. Country, R&B and rock all together. Steel guitar, fuzz guitar, piano, and a country vocal. You can hear a thousand genres … Continue reading
Fan video: “Hot Burrito #1″ is an absolutely perfect country weeper about lost love. Elvis Costello does a hell of a cover of this tune: Anyhow, Parsons takes the listener through a spectrum of emotions both lyrically and musically over … Continue reading
Fan video? Official video? Who knows! “Sin City” walks the line between being a serious meditation on a fallen city and a parody of that sort of song. While Las Vegas has the reputation of being Sin City, it seems … Continue reading
Fan video, I think: The Flying Burrito Brothers were arguably the most influential of Gram Parson’s various bands. According to AllMusic,, their 1969 debut album, The Gilded Palace of Sin, “virtually invented the blueprint for country-rock.” You may recall that … Continue reading
This track is originally from 1968′s Crown of Creation and is one of their heaviest tracks. So heavy in fact, there was some minor debate in regards of it being the first “Heavy Metal” song. But it was typical of … Continue reading