Travis Tritt – Anymore
The radio dial clicks. It’s late, the air outside heavy with the static hum of a quiet town. The sound…
Country
Clint Black – Killin’ Time
The vinyl drops with a soft, analog thud, the needle finding its groove with a scratch of anticipation. I’m back…
Ricky Skaggs – Crying My Heart Out Over You
The air was different in 1981. Country music was moving, as it always does, toward the slicker edges of pop…
Ronnie Milsap – Smoky Mountain Rain
It’s two in the morning. The highway unfurls like a black, wet ribbon beneath the tires, the air thick with…
The Oak Ridge Boys – Elvira
It’s late spring in 1981. Country music is in a curious state—the ‘Urban Cowboy’ boom is peaking, and Nashville is…
Gene Watson – Fourteen Carat Mind
The year is 1981. Country music, famously resistant to seismic shifts, was nevertheless standing on a fault line. The slick,…
Don Williams – I Believe in You
It is 1980. The air is thick with the synthesized ambition of new wave and the electric fury of arena…
Merle Haggard – Medley
The first time I heard a Merle Haggard “Medley,” it wasn’t on a pristine vinyl re-issue or a modern high-fidelity…
Daniel O Donnell & Mary Duff – Say You Love Me
The air in the dim, late-night café was thick with a quiet melancholy, punctuated only by the soft clink of…
Robert & Richard Mizzell – Walk The Line
The first few notes of Robert Mizzell’s “Walk The Line Revisited,” featuring his father, Richard, do not explode from the…