Johnny Cash – American VI: Ain’t No Grave

Well, to some of you who may have read my entry on the “final” Johnny Cash album toward the end of the 2009 project, you may remember me saying something that “that closes the book on Johnny Cash”, but it looks like I was wrong! American Recordings put out an album for Cash’s 78th birthday [...]

Bob Dylan – Christmas In The Heart

Bob Dylan, at least in my eyes, is an institution. I have never heard a single album or even full song by the man*, and I could not recall a single line of music he has ever done, unless it’s something that’s been covered by someone else, yet I know exactly what his voice sounded [...]

Johnny Cash – Orange Blossom Special

I hesitated at first to write much about Johnny Cash on this blog, mainly because I didn’t want to reveal just how obsessed with the Man In Black I really am. Fact is, there’s not much else I can do to deny it. According to my zune.net profile, since October 4th when I got my [...]

Johnny Cash – At San Quentin

For some reason, when I started this blog, I told myself I wouldn’t talk about any live albums. Just today I asked myself why not? After all, they’re still albums, and I’ve been listening to a particular one all day to get me through a 13 hour day at work: This is the second live [...]

Leonard Cohen – Songs Of Leonard Cohen

Some days you wake up, possibly after sleeping way too much, and the day outside is cold, gray and hopeless, and you have nothing to do but sit inside and let the day just go by and reflect on life, of past love and failures over a cup of coffee. This is the perfect time [...]

Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left

It’s dark and cold outside, I’m up before the sun (had to be, by 8pm yesterday I had been up for 31 hours straight so I just went to bed “early”) and I’m down to my last cup of hot cocoa. It’s time to talk about Nick Drake. It’s fortunate that I didn’t decide to [...]