1. Home Life- John Mayer

• "And I will go to my grave with the life that I gave not just some melody line on a radio wave". On his sophomore album "Heavier Things" John Mayer yearns for simple pleasures on the song "Home Life". "Finish on a Friday and sit in traffic on the highway". I guess when you are young, wealthy and famous with unlimited access to models, actresses, singers, and miscellaneous hot women you look for what has eluded you...sitting around the house like a regular working stiff. Mayer went so far as to tattoo the words "Home" and "Life" on his arms to bring the point home.

2. Dive In- Dave Matthews Band

• "Summers here to stay, and all those summer games will last forever go down to the shore, kick off your shoes, dive in the empty ocean". "Dive In" is featured on the new album "Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King". Like 2005's"American Baby", "Dive In" sounds sweet at first but there is something darker just below the surface. Don't let the upbeat chorus fool you. For me this song and many others from the new album drive home how much drummer Carter Beauford helps define the sound of the band. His imprint is unmistakable. Critics agree that the Dave Matthews Band got it's groove back on "Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King". The album serves as a tribute to their late saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Strangely I saw the last DMB concert with LeRoi Moore last summer at Nissan Pavilion in northern Virginia. It was a fantastic show featuring the band's first performance of the Peter Gabriel hit "Sledgehammer". I'll head to Hershey, PA next Friday to see the band again.

3. Dancing Days- Led Zeppelin

• "Dancing days are here again summer evenings grow I got my flower, I got my power, I got a woman who knows". Every now and then my iPod decides to get the led out. In the 60s and 70s guitarist Jimmy Page had more riffs than the Bible has Psalms. "Dancing Days" is one of countless examples. If you don't recognize the song by title you'll know it the moment the song starts. 1973's "Houses of the Holy" also features several other Zeppelin riff classics including "Over the Hills and Far Away" and "The Ocean". Stone Temple Pilots would cover "Dancing Days" on the 1995 Zeppelin tribute "Encomium". That tribute album also features Sheryl Crow moaning her way through "D'Yer Mak'er". No complaints here.