December 19, 2025 —– Chart #329 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week, A Christmas edition. There are Christmas songs that gently usher in the holiday spirit… and then there’s Let It Snow, which kicks open the door, pours you a drink, steals your mistletoe, and leans on […]
December 12, 2025 —– Chart #328 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs punch their way out of the speakers like they’ve been waiting their whole lives for you to hit “play.” It’s All Over Now is one of those — early Stones, scrappy Stones, back-alley
December 5, 2025 —– Chart #327 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. There are songs that sound like a warm blanket, a sunset, or a memory. California Dreamin’ sounds like all three, even if you’re listening to it in February while scraping ice off a windshield in
November 28, 2025 —– Chart #326 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs make you want to roll the windows down, ease off the gas, and let the world go by at about the speed of a Sunday afternoon golf cart. Long May You Run is
November 21, 2025 —– Chart #325 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Every now and then a song comes along that makes you tilt your head like a Labrador trying to understand a crossword puzzle. If I Had a Boat is that song — a perfectly Texan
November 14, 2025 —– Chart #324 There are those moments when a song lifts you gently and unexpectedly into a quieter space—like a soft breeze on a busy day. That’s what “Anywhere Like Heaven” does. It’s not the headline grabber from Sweet Baby James, but side two of the record holds its own kind of
November 7, 2025 —– Chart #323 Howdy Music Friends, Some songs cut through the airwaves like sunshine through water—bright, unexpected, and instantly uplifting. That’s exactly what happened when The Dirt Band (yes, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band wearing a streamlined name in the early 1980s) conjured up “Make a Little Magic.” Written by Jeff Hanna,
October 31, 2025 —– Chart #322 Howdy Music Friends, Sometimes a song comes along that feels like a private late-night conversation—sharp, honest, and just a bit bittersweet. That’s what Bob Dylan served up with “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” A song wrapped in folk tradition, complete with a folk-picking melody, and words that feel
October 24, 2025 —– Chart #321 Howdy Music Friends, There comes a moment in a songwriter’s career when everything clicks: the right melody, the right words, the perfect woman. For Billy Joel, that moment came with “She’s Always a Woman,” where confessional piano meets timeless lyric, wrapped in the warmth of admiration… and maybe a
October 17, 2025 —– Chart #320 Howdy Music Friends, Every once in a while, a song leaps across genre lines like a well-tuned lasso and finds a home in your heart—whether it’s draped in gospel, R&B, or country-southern charm. That’s what “Stand By Me” did when Mickey Gilley made it his own in 1980: it