The Artist Heavy is the head that wears the crown. And in folk music, no crown is heavier than that of Woody Guthrie. Given that Arlo Guthrie is the oldest…
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Thursday CarTune: Roxy Music And Toyota Share Their Visions of Avalon
The Song The title track of Roxy Music’s final studio album almost never made it onto the album. Yet today, Avalon, which debuted in 1982, has become a staple of…
Thursday CarTune: Tom Petty and the Land Rover Defender take a trip to Pirate’s Cove
The Song The Trip to Pirate’s Cove is a classic road song from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers twelfth studio album, Mojo which was released in 2010. While the album…
Thursday CarTunes: Da Yoopers and their Rusty 1975 Chevrolet Impala
The Song Carrying on a tradition by such storied parodists as Stan Freberg, Allan Sherman, and Weird Al Yankovich, Da Yoopers offer this simple holiday song, Rusty Chevrolet. A tale…
The Song The third track off his self-titled debut Album, Marc Cohn’s Silver Thunderbird was the follow-up single to the monster hit, Walking In Memphis. Silver Thunderbird is a song…
The Song What do you get when hip hop meets dance and electronic music in a Sri Lankan home in the United Kingdom? The music of M.I.A., a multi-platinum songwriter,…
Destination: A Monaco Grand Prix to Remember at the Fairmont Monte Carlo
Next time you find yourself in itching to spend a bundle for a great Monaco Grand Prix experience, this might do the trick. Located on the Côte d’Azur in the…
The Song Short Skirt, Long Jacket was written by Cake frontman John McCrae who says it speaks to the “the relationship between prosperity and the population boom.” In other words,…
The song Written in 1974 by Bobby Braddock, this country classic communicates the singers’ comfort with their down to earth lives. While many songs of the genre focus on heartache,…
The Great Eight: Museums and Attractions Your Friends Have Never Been To
The trips with unique and interesting stories are the ones that stay with you the longest. You’ll talk about them for years after you get back, reliving the vacation over…