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…
Paul Anka – Put your hand on my shoulder
The year is 1959. Elvis is in the Army, rock and roll’s first, wild burst is morphing, and the vacuum…
Simon & Garfunkel – El Condor Pasa (If I Could)
It was a cold, high sound, utterly foreign to the pop charts of 1970. It drifted in like mist over…
Paul Simon – American Tune (1975)
The year is 1975, and the lights are low. Not the glamorous, high-wattage spotlights of a sold-out arena, but the…
HEY GIRL – THE TEMPTATIONS
The needle drops, and for a moment, the world outside the speakers—the grit and hustle of 1960s America, the relentless…
Sloop John B by The Beach Boys
The wind had been knocked out of the sails of pop music, and nobody knew it yet. It was 1966,…
Beach Boys – Don’t Worry Baby
The scene is always the same in my memory: a late-night drive, the city lights blurring into streaks of gold…
Bowling Green – The Everly Brothers
The air hangs thick and sweet on a late-summer night, the kind of stillness that invites memory. Out on the…
Bill Haley & His Comets – Calling All Comets (1956)
It is easy, looking back through the rear-view mirror of music history, to reduce Bill Haley & His Comets to…