Jeannie Seely – Don’t Touch Me (1966)
The light is low. A single bulb hangs over the scarred, dark wood of the console. The air in the…
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Jack Greene – Statue of a Fool (1969)
The air in the control room must have been thick with the scent of old wood, tobacco, and the ozone…
Porter Wagoner – The Cold Hard Facts of Life (1967)
The air in the Nashville studio that day in 1967 must have been thick with the smell of cigarette smoke…
Merle Haggard – Hungry Eyes (1969)
It’s late. The kitchen is dark save for the amber glow spilling from the open refrigerator, the soundtrack the low…
Connie Smith – Once a Day (1964)
It’s 3 AM, and the city outside is nothing but a distant hum. I’m sitting in the dark, the kind…
Johnny Cash – Daddy Sang Bass (1968)
It’s late, the kind of stillness that settles over a house when the last light has been extinguished and the…
Buck Owens – Where Does the Good Times Go (1968)
The car was an old Ford, the seats vinyl, the air thick with the dust of a summer road trip…
Johnny Cash – The Little Drummer Boy (1964)
It is a late December evening. The air is cold, the glow from a single lamp is warm, and a…
George Hamilton IV – Abilene (1963)
The air in the old Chevrolet was thick with the scent of vinyl and forgotten coffee. It was late, maybe…
Henson Cargill – Skip a Rope (1967)
The late 1960s were a volatile, messy, and loud era in American life. Yet, amidst the psychedelic swirls of San…