Living Next Door to Alice – Smokie
The year is 1976. The air in the recording studio is thick with the scent of stale coffee and the…
Oldies Songs
Air Supply – “Making Love Out of Nothing at All”
The year 1983 was a period of strange, high-contrast collisions in the recording industry. Synthesizers were becoming the new law…
The Echo of Memory: A Review of Barbra Streisand’s The Way We Were Meta
It begins with a hum—a wordless, melodic sigh that feels less like a studio recording and more like a private…
Bee Gees – Just one look
The air in IBC Studios during the mid-1970 sessions must have been thick with more than just cigarette smoke and…
Bee Gees – Giving up the Ghost
The year is 1987. Inside the hushed, cavernous interior of Middle Ear Studios in Miami, the air is thick with…
Bee Gees – Still Waters Run Deep
The year is 1997. The airwaves are thick with the synthesized crackle of electronic music and the deliberate grit of…
George Jones – Say It’s Not You
I first heard this piece of music on an old, crackling vinyl copy of the If My Heart Had Windows…
Bee Gees – Mr. Natural
The year is 1974. The Bee Gees, once the undisputed masters of the baroque pop ballad and the soaring, melancholy…
Bee Gees – Wouldn’t I Be Someone
The year is 1972. The Bee Gees—Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb—are standing at a precarious precipice. They had already defined…
Partridge Family – “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”
The air in the garage was always a little dusty, even on a day when the California sun made the…