Boxcar Willie – A Good Old Country Song
It’s late. The kitchen light is dim, a cold front moving in outside. The radio—not a digital stream, but a…
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Jim Devine – Somebody Lied
The memory of the first time I truly heard this piece of music is clear: a late Friday evening, the…
Rhonda Vincent & Gene Watson – Gone For Good
The neon signs of Lower Broadway in Nashville blur in my memory, painted by the rain of a long-ago night.…
Tanya Tucker – Delta Dawn
The road unwinds under the dim sweep of the late-night radio, the kind of forgotten highway where all the big-city…
Ben Haggard & Noel Haggard – Mama Tried
The long miles of a late-night drive are often soundtracked by ghosts. Not the rattling, supernatural kind, but the echoes…
Hello Darlin – Scotty McCreery
It’s late, the kind of late where the neon signs of the city have long since been turned down, and…
Alan Jackson & George Strait sing “Remember When” & Troubadour
The roar of the crowd at a major awards show is a chaotic thing—a thousand small enthusiasms braided into one…
Waylon Jennings – Lonesome On’Ry and Mean
The vinyl crackle is the sound of a match being struck in the dark. It’s 1973. Nashville, for all its…
George Strait – Middle Aged Crazy (Jerry Lee Lewis Cover)
The house lights dim. There is a perceptible shift in the air, a respectful hush that settles over a crowd…
Hank Locklin – Please Help Me, I’m Falling
The air is thick, not with cigar smoke and sawdust, but with something richer, cleaner—reverb the color of midnight blue.…