Arlo Guthrie wrote the Motorcycle Song (The Significance of the Pickle) in 1967 as part of the counter-revolution then sweeping the country. Son of folk musician Woodie Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie’s best known work is Alice’s Restaurant Massacree. The chorus to...

I'm a connections person; I don't have many original ideas, but I like to think I have a knack for seeing the link between what might be seemingly disparate ideas. So, I'm listening to the radio (which I rarely do), and on comes Burning Down the House by the Talking...