Drift Away – Dobie Gray
The car radio, that ancient, ubiquitous altar of pop culture, is where the best songs live forever. It doesn’t matter…
Oldies Songs
Lee Dorsey – Ya Ya
The air in the studio, reportedly a humble New Orleans space, must have been thick with cigarette smoke and the…
Precious And Few – Climax 1972
There are some songs that simply exist outside the clamor of the chart wars, pieces of music that feel less…
Johnny Rivers – Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (1973)
It is a sound that smells of stale beer and hot asphalt, a sound born under the sticky summer moon…
George Burns – I Wish I Was Eighteen Again
The year is 1980. George Burns, a man who had already lived long enough for two full careers, was ninety-four…
Jim Stafford & Dolly Parton – Spiders & Snakes Branson
The best performances are often accidental miracles. They are the moments when a meticulously crafted studio recording, which stands as…
I Dream of Jeannie – Jeannie, Boyce and Hart (Out and About)
There is a precise kind of sonic time travel that occurs when a forgotten 45 is dropped onto a turntable.…
Lobo – I’d Love You To Want Me
There is a moment in the late night, past the loud pronouncements of midnight and before the pale promise of…
Roger Miller – I’m a Nut
The memory is crisp, nearly cinematic: a sticky summer evening, the static-laced pulse of AM radio cutting through the humid…
Johnny Horton – When It’s Springtime In Alaska (It’s Forty Below)
The room is dark, save for the blue glow spilling from the home audio setup across the floor. You can…