Rita Coolidge – We’re All Alone (1978)
The year is 1978. The air is thick with the competing sounds of disco’s glittering excess and punk’s defiant sneer.…
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Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend (1975)
The year is 1975. The airwaves are thick with the shimmer of disco and the growl of arena rock, a…
Ronnie Milsap – It Was Almost Like A Song (1977)
The late 1970s. The air was thick with the scent of vinyl and the promise of a sound that could…
Glen Campbell – Southern Nights (1977)
It was a late, humid night, the kind where the air felt thick enough to chew, and the only company…
The Charlie Daniels Band – The South’s Gonna Do It Again (1974)
The humidity hangs heavy and the air conditioner groans—a familiar sound track to a thousand nights spent chasing the ghost…
Red Sovine – Teddy Bear (1976)
It is easy to dismiss a spoken-word song from the mid-1970s, especially one drenched in the maudlin syrup of truck-driving…
Conway Twitty – I Can’t Stop Loving You (1970)
The moment the needle drops on Conway Twitty’s 1970 rendition of “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” you are not just…
John Denver – Rocky Mountain High (1972)
The American songbook is full of road-trip hymns and anthems of place, but few capture the sheer, ecstatic liberation of…
Johnny Paycheck – Take This Job and Shove It
The memory is crisp: the stale, humid air of a forgotten diner booth, sometime deep in the 1990s. The jukebox,…
Hank Williams Jr. – A Country Boy Can Survive
The air was thick, not with Nashville humidity, but with the clatter of a late-night diner in a small town…