The Shangri-las – Out In the Streets
The needle drops. A cavernous echo opens up the soundstage, swallowing the frantic strumming of an acoustic guitar that sounds…
Billy Fury – I’m Lost Without You
The year is 1965. The British Invasion has become a tidal wave, sweeping away the vestiges of the pre-Beatles era.…
Ricky Nelson – Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
The year is 1957. The sound barrier of American culture has been shattered by the roar of rock and roll.…
Dave Clark Five – “I like It Like That”
The scent of dust motes dancing in a sunlit parlor, the faint, ozone tang of an old tube radio warming…
The Tremeloes – Here Comes My Baby (1967)
It’s late. The city outside my window is hushed, illuminated by the cold, neon glow of a bar sign across…
Lucifer’s Friend – Ride The Sky (1971)
The needle drops, and the air crackles with something that feels dangerous. It’s a sound caught precisely at the fulcrum…
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
There are moments in music history when a sonic doorway is kicked open, not carefully unlocked. Black Sabbath’s 1970 breakthrough…
Canned Heat – Going up the Country (1969)
The first notes arrive like a promise. They are not the heavy, amplified churn of the late-60s electric blues that…
James Gang – Walk Away (1971)
I first heard it screaming out of a pair of cheap, tinny car speakers on a rainy interstate drive. It…
Canned Heat – On The Road Again (1968)
I remember the first time I truly heard this piece of music. It wasn’t through a tinny car radio or…