I'm not even going to try to compete with some of these brilliant in-depth journals with highly detailed reviews (Comus's for example)---but I'll throw out some of my humble little reviews about songs I'm diggin at the moment. Feel free to cuss and discuss my choices.
SONG: Highway Song
ARTIST: Blackfoot
ALBUM: Strikes
Blackfoot's retort of Skynyrd's "Free Bird". Never did get the recognition Free Bird did, but probably deserves just as much.
Starts off with a steady guitar riff that gives away its Southern rock influence, then throws out some powerful strings out of nowhere that really sets the mood lonely as hell. Rickey Medlocke's vocals really shine through on this song. He has a really masculine bluesy voice that intensifies the loneliness of this song. That, paired with some really quality lyrics--
First line of the song, also my favorite:
"Another day, 'nother dollar, after I've sang and hollered. Oh... It's my way of livin' and I can't change a thing.."
---makes one hell of a great song.
The timing of the guitar solo in this song is perfect. It hits a climax that makes you feel every bit of what he is feeling and singing about. It will really put you in a zone. When I play this song everybody know just to leave me the hell alone until its over, which is 7 minutes and some odd seconds haha. I listen to this a lot when I ride the bus to school, I see alot of truckers on the road and I think about how far away from home they are and how appropriate this song is for them.
The songs I've reviewed thus far:
A
Don't Follow by Alice In Chains
B
Highway Song by Blackfoot
Chan Chan by Buena Vista Social Club
C
Jackson by Johnny Cash & June Carter
Walkin' After Midnight by Patsy Cline
Fire Woman by The Cult
D
Mother by Danzig
Rocky Mountain High by John Denver
Sunshine Superman by Donovan
The Watcher by Dr. Dre
Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan
E
September by Earth, Wind, & Fire
I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) by The Electric Prunes
Rock On by David Essex
F
Mami Me Gusto by Ibrahim Ferrer
Mil Congojas by Ibrahim Ferrer
I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) by The First Addition
Foggy Mountain Breakdown by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs
Gypsy by Fleetwood Mac
Waiting For a Girl Like You by Foreigner
G
Worrisome Heart by Melody Gardot
Let's Stay Together by Al Green
H
The Wind Cries Mary by Jimi Hendrix
I
Who Is She by I Monster
J
Mary Jane by Rick James
K
As the Years Go Passing By by Albert King
Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks
L
Lightning Crashes by Live
Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Hey Hey What Can I Do, I Can't Quit You Babe, What is and What Should Never Be, Bron-Yr-Aur-Stomp all by Led Zeppelin
Was I Right Or Wrong by Lynyrd Skynyrd
Four Walls of Raiford by Lynyrd Skynyrd
M
Long Gone Day by Mad Season
Can't You See by The Marshall Tucker Band
Sway by Dean Martin
Come Mek We Run by Pablo Moses
I Feel Like Going Home by Muddy Waters
N
A Good Hearted Woman by Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings
Blue Drag by New Orleans Jazz Vipers
Everybody's Talkin' by Harry Nilsson
P
Me and the I.R.S. by Johnny Paycheck
R
Paris Blues by Django Reinhardt
Mother's Little Helper by The Rolling Stones
S
Against the Wind by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
The Pusher by Steppenwolf
Winter Time by Steve Miller Band
T
Hold The Line by Toto
W
Life's Been Good by Joe Walsh
Ramblin' Man by Hank Williams Jr.
Just the Two of Us by Bill Withers and Grover Washington
Z
Time Of the Season by The Zombies