Wilma Burgess – Misty Blue (1975)
The light is off, but the city’s electric hum still bleeds in through the blinds—a faint orange glaze across the…
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Waylon Jennings – Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way (1975)
It’s 1975. You’re driving late at night, somewhere between Amarillo and Lubbock. The air is thick with the smell of…
Waylon Jennings – Good Hearted Woman (1972)
It’s 2 AM on a two-lane highway, miles blurring beneath the high beams. The radio is a quiet hiss until…
Tom T. Hall – The Year Clayton Delaney Died (1971)
The air in the cabin was thick with the scent of old vinyl and ozone from a tube radio, it…
C.W. McCall – Convoy (1975)
The air is thick with static, the hiss and crackle of AM radio in a truck stop diner late at…
Don Williams – I Recall A Gypsy Woman (1973)
It’s two in the morning. The rain has stopped, but the streets outside still gleam with a dark, oily sheen…
Crystal Gayle – Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (1977)
The year is 1977. Bell bottoms still reigned, the air was thick with disco fever, and the radio dials were…
Dolly Parton – Two Doors Down (1978)
The late 1970s smelled like cheap perfume, cigarette smoke, and the faint, electrical tang of a strobe light. It was…
Barbara Mandrell – If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want To Be Right)
The air in the listening room is thick, not with smoke or anticipation, but with the quiet resonance that only…
Don Williams – Tulsa Time (1978)
The air hung thick and sweet, the kind of late-summer night where the windows were down not for cooling, but…