Tom Lane's Music Blog

Guy Davis - Legend of Sugarbelly Jelly Roll - Beautifully Broken Samara Joy - Portrait Better Than Jail - Various  Hayes and the Heathens - ...

  October 1967, post-Summer of Love.  I'm a little over 3 years old, so music to me are the Monkees, the Beatles, etc. Still, I found so...

Pour A Little Sugar On It: Chewy Chewy Sounds of American Bubblegum 66-72 - Various Leon Bridges - Leon Kasey Chambers - Backbone New Jill S...

  You're damn right I was giddy after Joe Biden won the 2020 election.  I really felt we had a chance to finally stomp Trumpism out of o...

Here’s the link to the Copper article:  For J For J  Who is J? My wife Judicia. On May 9, 2023, I added the first songs to a Spotify mixta...

   All great Music Producers have their own sound.  Instantly recognizable no matter who they are producing.  Quincy Jones had that touch.  ...

Nick Lowe - Indoor Safari Louis Armstrong - Louis in London JD McPherson - Nite Owls Billy Strings - Highway Prayers Mickey Guyton - House o...

  Greatest Halloween Songs (2024 Edition) 1.   Thriller - Michael Jackson 2.  Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett 3.  I Put A Spe...

  Updated November 2024 For 2024 I've slotted my snubs into four categories.   My main list only includes performers. One note:  I was h...

Coldplay -  Moon Music MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks David Gilmour - Luck and Strange Heavy Heavy - One Of A Kind Shovels & Rope - So...

Such a glorious tme fo AM Top 40 Radio. Here are my picks: To listen to this go to:   For this latest poll 32 songs were picked to vote on. ...

Miranda Lambert - Postcards from Texas Mickey Guyton - House on Fire Shemekia Copeland - Blame It On Eve George Strait - Cowboys & Dream...

A.C. Newman - Slow Wonder Alan Jackson - What I Do Arcade Fire - Funeral Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast Beastie Boys - To the 5 Bor...

  To a certain generation Kris Kristofferson was an actor first, singer second. Such was his ubiquitous presence on screen.  Kristofferson h...

Gillian Welch & David Rowlings - Woodland Joe Elt - Driven To Drive Lainey Wilson - Whirlwind Sabrina Carpenter - Short n' Sweet Leo...

  August 1962.  Beatlemania is still a year and a half away from hitting the U.S.  This chart gives no indication of the forthcoming British...

Here's a 50th anniversary poll I took part in: my Top 20 albums & top 10 singles of 1974.  Had to leave a lot off, but these are pre...

Jack White - No Name Red Clay Strays - Made By These Moments Can't Seem to Come Down: American Sounds of 1968 - Various (Grapefruit Box ...

  Frankie Beverly never had a Pop Top 40 hit.  Never had a Pop Top 20 album. Yet all of his 10 albums went Gold.  He was the definition of a...