For The Sake Of The Song

Yet another Wild Weekend , which we´ll celebrate in the usual way: with a sixpack mix of songs chosen by my iPod´s nifty shuffle function. G...

As reader Pete from down under recently pointed out to me after I wrote about obscure Texas country artist Terry Allen in these pages, ther...

"You think you've got it all set up, you think you've got the perfect plan..." Two sides of the same soul coin. It doesn´t...

Blind Willie, Lonnie, Tommy, Elizabeth, and the king of ´em all: Robert of course. Four legendary bluesmen and one obscure blueswoman. They ...

Wild Weekend time again... With the For The Sake Of The Song iPod on shuffle and the eyes on the prize. The outcome? A sixpack of tunes exc...

While reading the liner notes to Jimmie Dale Gilmore´s After Awhile (see post below) I happened upon the following Gilmore quote, describi...

Time to pay some dues here. Or: presenting some artists I discovered through the enthusiastic posts of fellow music bloggers over the past c...

"I´m glad to see you coming, I´m glad to see you go... She once told me I´m glad to see you coming, I'm glad to see you go..."...

Time for another version of Wild Weekend , where the shuffle function of my iPod decides the contents of a sixpack of songs. What did the gh...

If you feel attracted to the funky powers of Nigerian music other than the obvious classics of afrobeat figurehead Fela Kuti, I´ve got a rec...

Time for some recent stuff that caught our ears here at For The Sake Of The Song headquarters. All the tracks in this refreshing ten pack ei...