Knees Calhoon's Midnight Ramble

We come to a milestone in the countdown: guest slots. Tonight I'd like to introduce Dugym Qycfyl (pronounced duggum quick fill) as a so...

This is a blatant attempt to get hits by dropping a name that has been in the news recently. I even changed the title, which used to be ...

Here's the story:  A guy named Harry Stephen Keeler wrote many books and they're so interesting a society of Keelerites was for...

I'm sorry, but Buffy the Vampire Slayer was one of the best shows ever on television and the musical episode, "Once More with Feel...

This is one of my favorite Poco songs, one of many. Poco perfectly captured the rock side of "country-rock" that began with the F...

This is probably one of those songs I have no business doing but I haven't been recording much lately and this was on my mind. I couldn...

Tonight's song is one that my daughter and I used to play on the piano and sing back in Las Cruces. I guess we learned it from the Lind...

This is a song whose time has come -- to be yanked headfirst from the grave where it has languished for the past 40 years. The Calhoons use...

I wanted to see if I could still dash off a song a night as I was doing a couple of months ago so I picked one that was easy and I knew, a ...

I've taken a vacation from music lately, mainly working on books. But when a song comes along that catches my ear -- even though I am n...

I spent the weekend at Clark County Park in Mississippi along with about 100 of my wife 's mother's family. It was peaceful outdo...

Today's song is typical: I recorded it in a couple of hours late one night then went to bed thinking, "Well, that one needs to be ...

Part of my reason for covering songs on this blog is to make sure that certain superior tunes don't get forgotten in the fog of time. I...

For a change I decided to do an old song that I know. Lately I've been working on some new songs that have videos to accompany them and...

Credit for inspiring this new song should go to Robin Harbron and his Canadian friends. Robin invited me to join his group, which records a...

Written by Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons of the Flying Burrito Brothers , this has always been one of my favorite harmony songs. So of cou...

One of my favorite Hollies tunes, this song was even played at the Las Cruces Inn a few times, but unfortunately was never recorded. I ofte...

It was back in 2012 that Knees joined a group of Canadians on Facebook and YouTube to make some music. It had been almost ten years since h...

This is a real departure for Knees. A song by U2! He considered it a "modern" song until he realized that it came out over 25 yea...

I had forgotten about recording this 1985 Knees Calhoon tune until I spotted the file. It must have been one of those late-night Ambien-ind...

I have a relatively cheap electronic piano that was out in a trailer in the back yard because there wasn't enough room in my office for...

This song has two distinct versions: the early one recorded in 1993 that's a C&W waltz and the R&R version in 4/4 time, done in ...