Arts and Entertainment

I'm digging deep for Dylan covers that you haven't heard a million times before--and that are good, or at least intriguing.  I've got some fascinating ones, but I'm open to…

We close out 'Thoroughfares Week" with Side 1, Cut 1 of my fave Springsteen album (it'd be your fave Springsteen album too if you heard it blasting out of your…

'...way up on way up on way up on way up on...the avenue of trees':

'Don't go to Gibsom 'cross the river'.   From the insanely-talented Laura Nyro:

Song (and the video) gives me chills. As does the story behind it.  'Dreaming of Mercy Street': Inspired by this poem by Anne Sexton, who committed suicide, on her 5th…

In a blatant ploy to expand our demographic (to a few people under 60), I offer up 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams'. Uh, something tells me that Green Day isn't exactly…

'Somewhere in America, there's a street named after my dad.'

We begin 'Thoroughfares That Don't Exist...Or Do They?' Week with a visit to Lonely Avenue:

'People get ready, there's a train a'comin'...' Curtis Mayfield writes a Gospel song for the ages:

Written by Steve Goodman, sung by Arlo Guthrie. Definitely in the conversation for best train song ever:

Aretha, waitin' on a train to bring her 'rooster' home:

'Waitin' on a train to take me home':

The King took this blues tune by Junior Parker, and turned it into one of the most iconic early rock 'n roll songs ever. Bringing 'race music' into the rock…