Tom Lane's Music Blog

Sunny Sweeney -Rhinestone Requiem Rodney Crowell - Airline Highway Buddy Guy - Ain't Done With The Blues Anthony Braxton - For Alto Alex...

  Greatest Halloween Songs (2025 Edition) 1.   Thriller - Michael Jackson 2.  Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett 3.  I Put A Spe...

 September 1977.  American Top 40. Soul Train. American Bandstand. AM Top 40 radio stations. Peak years for all these for me.  33 songs were...

Updated January 2026 30 Rock 60 Minutes A Different World Adam-12 Addams Family Alice All Creatures Great & Small (2020’s) All In The Fa...

Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts Patricia Brennan - Breaking Stretch Trisha Yearwood - The Mirror Cam - All Things Light CMAT - Euro-Country Ma...

  The Pretenders debut album is one I took a chance on when it was released.  All I heard was "Brass In Pocket" and all I read was...

Kim Richey - s/t Patty Griffin - Crown of Roses Millie Jackson - It's Over Mariah Carey - Here For It All Nashville Bluegrass Band - Unl...

Amadou & Miriam - Dimanche a Bamako Anthony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now Anthony Hamilton - Ain’t Nobody Worryin’ Art Brut - Bang ...

  Here's an interesting poll I voted on: ranking the big 6, Mt. Rushmore if you will, of 1950's Rock 'n' Roll.  The initial ...

Elvis Presley - Sunset Boulevard (box set) Taj Mahal/Keb Mo - Room on the Porch Ashley Monroe - Tennessee Lightning Amanda Shires - Nobody...

  The latest poll I voted on was for songs from August 1963.  A year before I was born, but I recognized most of these.  42 songs were liste...

Bruce Springsteen - Lost Albums (box set)  Barbra Streisand - Partners Vol. 2 Sheila Jordan - Portrait of Sheila Willi Carlisle - Winged Vic...

   Released at the end of 1965, Rubber Soul just might be my favorite Beatles album.  It's hard to pick just one, but this album has st...

  The latest poll I voted on was for songs from July 1971.  A month earlier we moved to Mannheim, Germany from North Carolina.  My Army Dad ...

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Beatles - Anthology 1  Bjork - Post Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter  ...

Doobie Brothers - Walk This Road Van Morrison - Remembering Now Eli "Paperboy" Reed - Sings Walkin' and Talkin' S.G. Goodm...

   Part of the Elvis comeback that began with the December 1968 TV special, From Elvis In Memphis is a high point in his discography.  Reco...

American Power Pop 1980-89 - Various (Cherry Red Box set) Matt Berninger - Get Sunk Hailey Whitters - Corn Queen North Mississippi Allstars ...

   I was born in 1964.  The first music I remember hearing came out of my sister's room by way of the radio and her records.  I often sa...

Latest poll I voted on were the top 20 albums/singles of 1985.  Of all the albums I'm kicking myself for missing, the Indestructible Bea...