In this episode we start our theme of blues bands in the 1970's with or without horns and I could think of no better blues band leader than Paul Butterfield and his then band Better Days to kick start things with their 1973 album "It All Comes Back".

In the final episode in our series on the Nashville singer songwriter movement of the early 1970's we take a look at the sad, troubled life of Townes Van Zandt and review his 1972 album "The Late Great Townes Van Zandt".

In the second part of our series on the new Nashville singer songwriter movement of the early '70s we take a look at the career of Mickey Newbury and review his 1971 album "Frisco Mabel Joy".

This episode we start our three part series on the new singer songwriter movement in Nashville in the early 1970's and no better place to begin than the man most people think of when the subject is brought up none other than Kris Kristofferson and his 1971 sophomore album "The Silver Tongued Devil and I".

In the last part of our theme on American punk rock in the 1970's we highlight a band that was as close to the Sex Pistols as the American scene would get with the Dead Boys and their 1977 album "Young Loud and Snotty". It was their debut album and only one of two albums they would release before1 they split up.

In the second part of our series on American punk rock in the late 1970's we look at a most extraordinary musician and band in Richard Hell and the Voidoids and their 1977 album "Blank Generation" with Richard Hell we discover that punk rock is not always just three chords and loud guitars.

As we start our three part series on American punk rock in the 1970's there is no better band than to begin with than The Ramones as we review their 1976 debut album, we also discuss the differences between American punk rock and the punk rock across the pond in Great Britain.

In this last episode in our theme of bands known for instrumental songs but actually do have vocalists we focus on the Scottish soul/R&B group the Average White Band and their 1974 album "AWB".

In part two of our look at bands known for instrumental hits but had a vocalist we switch things around and take a look at a band known for vocal hits but was mostly instrumental and that's the funk/jazz music of The Crusaders as we spotlight their 1976 album "Free as the Wind".

We start our theme of band's known for their instrumental hits but actually had singers with The Meters, a band known for their New Orleans funk, and their 1975 album "Fire on the Bayou".