David Allan Coe.

Another Steve Goodman classic.

The Saturday Kristofferson (an ongoing series)

Been there, done that.

Lucinda Williams.

(I posted this a while back as done  by Emmylou Harris and Gram Parsons, but this is my favorite version)

And a good saloon in every single town: Gram & Emmylou

The girl with no pantyline.

The Road Goes on Forever.

The Great Joe Ely.

Croce.

A song for Willie, busted again...

Another reminder of why you should want live in Philly.

From the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program:

A Canadian couple, Todd and Meaghan, learned about the Mural Arts Program's Love Letter Tour and coordinated an extended layover in Philadelphia (en route to Paris) to experience this wildly popular tour.

Todd contacted the Mural Arts tour office to let them know he wanted to propose to Meaghan on the tour, and the Mural Arts Program offered a clever idea in making his marriage proposal extra special.

This video is a result of Mural Arts Program's partnership with The University of Pennsylvania - Penn Singers Light Opera Company and Penn Glee Club. We're excited to share with you the biggest surprise of Meaghan's life!

She may be swifter than I thought.

at this point in my life, I am well beyond being capable of keeping up with, or caring to keep up with, all the various singers, musicians, writers, artists and other creative types who have become or in the stage of becoming pop icons. For example, my total knowledge of the apparently very popular and successful Taylor Swift is from the night she hosted Saturday Night Live. From my brief encounter I formed a very quick and superficial opinion: cute, decent lyrics, weak vocalist.

But opinions can change. When I stumbled across a story online recently that talked about her going to a neighborhood music store and buying several items including two Bruce Springsteen albums, a Kris Kristofferson collection and the Dolly Parton/Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris "Trio" album, my level of admiration moved up significantly (okay, it was pretty much at zero before that, but still...).

The fact that she was buying them on vinyl really sealed the deal.

Just sayin'...