Subject: Sam Phillips

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Good Die Young" -

  December 19, 2008

• From the Facebooks: John Yuelkenbeck's desert-island playlist

  Editor's note: I'd been waiting for the right Facebook music list to arrive that I could grab for this blog, and, lo, it came this past Sunday. It's fitting that it's by Dave's bartender John Yuelkenbeck, not just because he presides over the best jukebox in town, but also because he published, edited and did most of the writing for a local music zine in the early '90s called Sound. Thanks to John for letting me post his classy list/essay as-is. The premise is basically the classic desert-island

  March 9, 2009

• Nina Nastasia

  September 14, 2006

• Cash Money

  You can't go wrong with Johnny Cash's recently reissued first five albums.

  March 14, 2002

• Americana Pie

  Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

  December 30, 2004

• A New Tune

  After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same.

  November 8, 2001

• Rock and a Hard Place

  Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

  October 5, 2000

• Sun Records Artist Billy Lee Riley Dead at 75

  While I wouldn't refer to him as a "lost giant," Billy Lee Riley is certainly one of the more under appreciated Sun Records artists. rockabillyhall.com​Most famous for his hit tune "Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll" than anything else, Riley was also responsible for "Red Hot," as well as a follow-up to "Flying Saucers" in "Rocking On the Moon." "Red Hot" was notable in that promotion for that song was pulled in order for Sam Phillips and Sun to focus on Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire."

  August 3, 2009