ANY ROAD.  This song is written to my husband, Jim, and it’s still true, and it will always be true. From the Metonyms’ album, Erase This Face (1994).  Recently, the Metonyms have made their entire 13 album catalogue available on mp3 through their official band blog at Wordpress.  Hope you enjoy!

ONE by Billy Jonas. 

FEELIN’ GROOVY.  Just about two months into chemo, my energy and my voice came back, sort of, for a day. What did that feel like? Groovy!!

BORN FOR ME.  One of my all-time favorite Paul Westerberg tracks.

WORKING CLASS HERO.  I’ll never forget calling John Lennon my hero in sociology class way back in the day.  He’ll always speak deeply to me no matter how many decades of loss go by. “As soon as you’re born, they make you feel small by giving you no time instead of it all…” Yeah.

WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS. “Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last…” So many simple songs wind up my favorites.

HAND IN MY POCKET.  “And what it all comes down to is that everything’s gonna be fine, fine, fine…”  Nostalgia for the 90’s HAS to include this kind of Clinton-era positivism.  It’s not my nature, and I didn’t buy it at the time, either.  That said, I will always love Alanis Morissette’s JAGGED LITTLE PILL from smack in the middle of the decade, 1995, a very good year for me and mine.

THE NEEDLE AND THE DAMAGE DONE.  There was a time when anyone learning to play the guitar would be learning to play Neil Young tunes from AFTER THE GOLD RUSH and from this album, HARVEST.  Vintage 1972.

GIRL.  “Is there anybody going to listen to my story?” Always fun covering a Lennon/Beatles classic.