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…
Johnny Rodriguez – We Believe in Happy Endings
The world was loud in 1976. The bicentennial clamor was in the air, rock was turning toward the arena, and…
Tammy Wynette – You and Me
The world was loud in 1976. The bicentennial clamor was in the air, rock was turning toward the arena, and…
Mary MacGregor – Torn Between Two Lovers
The year is 1977. The air is thick with the promise of change, and the FM dial is a landscape…
Crystal Gayle – We Must Believe in Magic
The air was humid, thick with the Nashville summer of 1977, but inside the studio, a different climate prevailed—one of…
Eddie Rabbitt – Rocky Mountain Music (1976)
The glow of the radio dial in a dark living room—that’s where this story starts for many of us. It…
Conway Twitty – Lost Her Love On Our Last Date
The air in the listening room is thick, not with cigarette smoke as it might have been in 1972, but…