CW McCall (Convoy)
The sound hits you not with a guitar riff or a drum crack, but with a sudden, startling burst of…
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Lenny and the Squigtones – Night after Night
I remember exactly where I was the first time I heard the full studio (or rather, “live”) recording of “Night…
Gayla Peevey – I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
The holiday season arrives each year with an enormous, predictable playlist. We settle into the familiar narratives: snow, romance, chimney…
Charlie Rich – Behind Closed Doors
The sound of 1973 was, in many ways, an exercise in excess: stadium rock anthems, sprawling prog epics, and funk…
Drift Away – Dobie Gray
The car radio, that ancient, ubiquitous altar of pop culture, is where the best songs live forever. It doesn’t matter…
Lee Dorsey – Ya Ya
The air in the studio, reportedly a humble New Orleans space, must have been thick with cigarette smoke and the…
Precious And Few – Climax 1972
There are some songs that simply exist outside the clamor of the chart wars, pieces of music that feel less…
Johnny Rivers – Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (1973)
It is a sound that smells of stale beer and hot asphalt, a sound born under the sticky summer moon…
George Burns – I Wish I Was Eighteen Again
The year is 1980. George Burns, a man who had already lived long enough for two full careers, was ninety-four…
Jim Stafford & Dolly Parton – Spiders & Snakes Branson
The best performances are often accidental miracles. They are the moments when a meticulously crafted studio recording, which stands as…