Bee Gees – Still Waters Run Deep
The year is 1997. The airwaves are thick with the synthesized crackle of electronic music and the deliberate grit of…
George Jones – Say It’s Not You
I first heard this piece of music on an old, crackling vinyl copy of the If My Heart Had Windows…
Bee Gees – Mr. Natural
The year is 1974. The Bee Gees, once the undisputed masters of the baroque pop ballad and the soaring, melancholy…
Bee Gees – Wouldn’t I Be Someone
The year is 1972. The Bee Gees—Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb—are standing at a precarious precipice. They had already defined…
George Jones – “I Don’t Need Your Rocking Chair”
The year was 1992. Out on the airwaves, the New Traditionalists were riding high, and the fresh-faced New Country stars…
Johnny Cash – General Lee
The road dust still settles in the mind’s eye. Close your eyes, and you can practically hear the revving engine,…
Partridge Family – “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”
The air in the garage was always a little dusty, even on a day when the California sun made the…
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
The light, what little there was, came from the streetlamp outside the window, cutting a pale diagonal across the wall.…
Capris – There’s A Moon Out Tonight
There is a moment in the history of recorded sound, right around the turn of the decade from the 1950s…
RICKY NELSON – Bye Bye Love
The year is 1960. The air is thick with the promise of a new decade, but the soundtrack is still…