My Jams Stories

These Are Your Jams, Volume Two

This is the second edition of the The Barns These Are Your Jams series. To see what this is all about, check out Volume One and for more jams check out our entire My Jams series.1. There are some interesting trends in this installment, including lots of different takes on the singer-songwriter and moving that...

These Are My Jams, Volume Six

This is the sixth edition of the The Barns These Are My Jams series. To see what this is all about, check out Volume One and for more jams, check out Volume Two, Volume Three,Volume Four, and Volume Five.1. I've parsed it every which way, and this song title, "Megachills" sounds alternately cool or...

These Are Your Jams, Volume One

I am an unabashed fan of the This Is My Jam music sharing / discovery site. So much so that I've been pretty regular about selecting a "jam" and have even used this blog to collect and publish periodic summaries of my favorites (there are currently five volumes: one,two, three,four, and five).This post...

These Are My Jams, Volume Five

This is the fifth edition of the The Barns These Are My Jams series. To see what this is all about, check out Volume One and for more jams, check out Volume Two, Volume Three and Volume Four.1. What a force Bettye Lavette is! Her smoldering take on the Stones' "Salt Of The Earth" is...

These Are My Jams, Volume Four

This is the fourth edition of the The Barns These Are My Jams series. To see what this is all about, check out Volume One and for more jams, check out Volume Two and Volume Three.1. I admit to doing a double take when I first heard the chorus to Rubblebucket's "Came Out Of...

These Are My Jams, Volume Three

This is the third edition of the The Barns These Are My Jams series. To see what this is all about, check out Volume One and for more jams, check out Volume Two.1. It was just a few weeks prior to getting to see The Boss at Wrigley field, when "Rocky Ground" from his superb...

These Are My Jams, Volume Two

This is the second edition of the The Barn's These Are My Jams series. To see what this is all about, check out Volume One.1. The further and further I get from my youth, the less and less inclined I feel to want to hang out with the people that make the music that I...

These Are My Jams, Volume One

This Is My Jam is a simple social music service that has really grabbed my attention and added a new dimension to the music that I share via The Barn Presents. The premise is that there is one song -- your jam -- that you choose to share with the world for (up to) six...