I’m in Austin now, and gorged a bit on LPs yesterday at Antone’s, a great little shop on Guadelupe.  Here, in all of their blurry iPhone photo’d glory, are what I walked out with, for a grand total of about 30 bucks!

The songs I’m posting today provide decent insight into my complicated personal romantic history. Prior to my current relationship, which sounds like this, love songs were excuses to revisit past experiences and sensations, which were generally marked by just-missed opportunities, outright exaltation, and retroactively resonant moments of nervous chatter. Here are a few of the [...]

I had a record number of replies for Volume II of the Cover Mix Contest, but only one got every track properly identified, with song titles and both artists. It’s also totally unfair, because the winner is Brian Ibbott, the proprietor of The Cover Song Podcast at Coverville.com. Now, to be fair, I didn’t issue [...]