"Don't It Make You Want To Go Home" - Joe South Probably best known for "Games People Play" and "Walk A Mile In My Shoes"; he also wrote "Hush" (Deep Purple), "Down in the Boondocks" (Billy Joe Royal) and "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" (Lynn Anderson). Also, I did not know this (I'm just going to copy & paste from wiki - I'm also assuming it is correct): "South was also a prominent sideman, playing guitar on Tommy Roe's "Sheila"; Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde album; and the classic tremolo intro on Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools". South played electric guitar on Simon & Garfunkel's second album, Sounds of Silence, although Al Gorgoni and/or Vinnie Bell feature on the title track." EDIT: I had two or three of his earlier albums. But one day my dad's second wife decided to throw out some stuff while my back was turned (away at college) - several boxes of my albums, 45s, probably 8-tracks/cassetts were included in the purge. She's passed away since, so out of respect to the dead I will not say that if I knew where she was buried I'd go piss on her grave......No. I will take the higher road and just let it go. Besides, I don't know where's she's buried.
Also appears on "Accept No Substitute," the first Delaney and Bonnie album, and on something of Fred Neil's and some early tapes of Gram Parsons' I think, too.
Saw this guy about 40 years ago; gonna see him again later this week: "Gotta Get Drunk" - Willie Nelson
I is for Imelda May with "Inside Out" (off an album which reached #1 in her native Ireland to complete the I trifecta!):
And one obligatory post for the king: "Jailhouse Rock" - Elvis Presley If I could have danced like that back in the day, oh the women I could have had... ...and the trouble that would have led to... It's probably just as well I have the moves of a slug with arthritis.
M is for one of my favorite long-drive-on-a-fast-highway songs, "Sweet Freedom" from Michael McDonald.
"New Old Friend & Earth Apple - The Suitcase Junket (Matt Lorenz) Pile Driver (2017) Saw him open for Scott Sharrard recently. Good show.
"The Ballad of Paladin" - Johnny Western (born: Johnny Westerlund) Have Gun Will Travel was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
"Something Wicked This Way Comes" - Jittery Jack Their tour brought them through town (on Elvis' B-day!); I'd not heard of them before, but now they're on my Obsession List. Oh, that's Amy Griffin on guitar.
LOVE this! Not old enough to have seen HGWT when it was prime time, but I been catching up on this, Marshall Dillon (30 min. Gunsmoke episodes), The Legend of Wyatt Earp, Maverick and Wanted Dead Or Alive on cable... My grandfathers would be proud. God Bless Encore Westerns!
"My Funny Valentine" - Hal McIntyre and His Orchestra; Vocal by Ruth Gaylor I was going to post Frank Sinatra's version, but I came across this tidbit: '"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart musical, Babes in Arms, in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green." I couldn't find that version; this is the oldest version I could find.
"Wild Horses" - Devon Allman I wanted to post "Watch What You Say" off his new CD, but I couldn't find a live version; so, after a few minutes of searching I decided on this one.