George Strait – You Look So Good in Love (1983)
The hum of the highway at two in the morning is a universal sound of lonesomeness. It is, perhaps, the…
Dan Seals – Bop (1985)
It’s a sound that smells like the inside of a 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass, a phantom aroma of stale cigarette smoke…
John Anderson – Swingin’ (1983)
The memory isn’t of a stadium or a spotlight, but of a specific kind of late-night radio. It’s the hum…
The Judds – Why Not Me (1984)
The year is 1984. Nashville is in the midst of a transition, still rooted in the smooth, almost orchestral approaches…
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5 (1980)
The year is 1980. The decade of disco was fading, replaced by the slick, synthesized sheen of new wave and…
Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb – Guilty
The year is 1980. The decade of disco was fading, replaced by the slick, synthesized sheen of new wave and…
David Frizzell & Shelly West – You’re The Reason God Made Oklahoma (1978)
The air in the cab of my old Ford Ranger was thick with the humid static of a late-night AM…
Mickey Gilley – Don’t The Girls All Get Prettier at Closing Time (1976)
The air in the club is thick with cigarette smoke, spilled beer, and a collective, mounting sense of desperation. It’s…
Crystal Gayle – I’ll Get Over You
The year is 1976. The air is thick with the twang of outlaw country and the smooth silk of burgeoning…
Anne Murray – Walk Right Back
The world was loud in 1976. The bicentennial clamor was in the air, rock was turning toward the arena, and…