February 20, 2026 —– Chart #338 Hello Music Friends, Welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Today’s selection is “Rocket Man” by Sir Elton John — the tune that somehow manages to be both a stadium sing-along and a quiet, lonely conversation with yourself at 2:00 a.m. It’s spacey without being sci-fi, emotional […]
February 13, 2026 —– Chart #337 Hello Music Friends, Welcome to another edition of Chart of the week. There are two kinds of people in this world: Jimmy Buffett was firmly in Camp #2, and he wrote a song about it. “Volcano” came out on Buffett’s 1979 album, also called Volcano, recorded on the island
February 6, 2026 —– Chart #336 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs don’t begin — they arrive. Into the Mystic sweeps in like a warm wind off the Irish Sea, carrying a little salt, a little soul, and a whole lot of something you can’t
January 30, 2026 —– Chart #336 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Let’s just admit something right up front: there are days when life feels complicated, messy, and about as clear as Dallas traffic during a rainstorm. And then a song like Black and White comes along
January 23, 2026 —– Chart #335 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Before we go any further, let me offer a lighthearted apology for today’s selection. Yes, yes… I know — Dance With Me isn’t exactly in the same historic league as Van Morrison, Paul Simon, Rodney
January 16, 2026 —– Chart #334 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Every once in a while, a song shows up that feels like a deep breath of clean Texas air — the kind you only get standing somewhere between Houston humidity and Hill Country limestone. Oh,
January 9, 2026 —– Chart #333 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. There are songs that drop you straight into a memory you didn’t even know you still had. Night Moves doesn’t ask permission — it just reaches into the glovebox of your past, pulls out a
January 2, 2026 —– Chart #331 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week. Some songs feel like they know something about your life that you haven’t admitted yet. Slip Slidin’ Away is one of those — Paul Simon in full philosopher-poet mode, humming in your ear like a
December 26, 2025 —– Chart #330 Hello Music Friends, Hey folks, welcome to another edition of Chart of the Week, another Christmas edition. Some songs are Christmas. You can string a million lights, bake a hundred cookies, and play every carol ever written… but the moment Nat King Cole starts singing “Chestnuts roasting on an
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