August 21, 2026 —– Chart #364 Hello Music Friends, The most famous father-and-son conversation in popular music is not about a father and son. It’s about the Russian Revolution. I’ll give you a minute with that one. In 1969 Cat Stevens was writing a musical called Revolussia, set in 1917 Russia, about a boy who […]
August 14, 2026 —– Chart #363 Hello Music Friends, Herb Alpert had a question he liked to ask great songwriters, and it’s a beauty: is there a song tucked away in your drawer somewhere — one that never got the right recording — that you still find yourself whistling in the shower? He put that
August 7, 2026 —– Chart #362 Hello Music Friends, Rusty Young was hired to be the guy in Poco who didn’t sing. That was the deal. He played the pedal steel, the banjo, the dobro — all the instruments that make a country-rock band sound like a country-rock band and none of the ones that
July 31, 2026 —– Chart #361 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we are going deep into soul music with one of the great heartbreak songs ever recorded. Today’s feature is “The Dark End of the Street” by James Carr. This is not a happy little
July 24, 2026 —– Chart #360 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we are going all the way back to the early days of rock and roll with one of the greats. Today’s feature is “Ain’t That a Shame” by Fats Domino. And before we are
July 17, 2026 —– Chart #359 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we are returning to Van Morrison, and that is never a bad place to go. Today’s feature is “Bright Side of the Road,” a terrific Van Morrison song from his 1979 album Into the
July 10, 2026 —– Chart #358 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week’s selection is a little different from many of the songs I feature here. It is a little racy, a little suggestive, and not exactly the kind of tune you would expect to hear at
July 3, 2026 —– Chart #357 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. Since this one lands on July 3rd, right before Independence Day, I thought we needed something with a little red, white, blue, and maybe a brown paper bag in the back of a pickup truck. Today’s
June 26, 2026 —– Chart #356 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we are going back to 1967 for a song that is fun, clever, and just a little bit unusual for the artists who recorded it. Today’s feature is “I Dig Rock and Roll Music”
June 19, 2026 —– Chart #355 Hello music friends, Welcome back to another edition of Chart of the Week. This week we are taking a little break from tradition. Most of the songs I feature here come from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, with an occasional toe-dip into the 80s if the song behaves itself