"Baby’s Callin’ Me Home"Steve Miller Band But it’s a Boz Scaggs song, with Boz doing lead vocal. Funny about the blues, they’re timeless. I think you could love hip-hop, jazz, electronic and still dig this. It’s the mood, the vibe, the ethereal vocal. You know those movies where the protagonist drives down the boulevard deep [...]

"Wrapped" Co-written by Walt Wilkins and Pat Green, I love both versions, but prefer Walt’s, it’s just a little more subtle, you hear the despair and the desire. In a perfect world, this would be on every cruise ship playlist, every yacht iPod, everywhere Jimmy Buffett rules. People have no idea the music they’ll like, [...]

Feel Like A Rock Star (Duet With Tim McGraw) I thought they called it COUNTRY music. If Charlie Rich cut "The Most Beautiful Girl " he wouldn’t be able to get any airplay, because suddenly country is rock. Only it’s a watered-down, wimpy, non-threatening take on the corporate rock of the seventies. As for Hank [...]

"Wheels Within Wheels"Rory Gallagher I heard this on the satellite on the ride home from Palm Springs and it was so right, so in the pocket, that it’s never left my mind. Rory Gallagher was doomed by being on Polydor, a second-rate label. I saw him open for Blind Faith with his band Taste, then [...]