Jerry Lee Lewis – Crazy Arms
The air inside the tiny room at 706 Union Avenue—Sun Studio in Memphis—must have been thick with cigarette smoke and…
Nat King Cole – “Too Young”
The track drops in with a snap of pure, unadulterated pleasure. It doesn’t fade; it simply arrives, fully formed in…
Sam Cooke “Good News”
The track drops in with a snap of pure, unadulterated pleasure. It doesn’t fade; it simply arrives, fully formed in…
Jerry Lee Lewis – One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
I first heard this piece of music on a cassette tape, late at night, in the pale glow of a…
Jerry Lee Lewis “You Win Again” (1979)
It’s 3:00 AM on a stretch of highway where the asphalt has begun to look like wet obsidian under the…
Fats Domino – The Sheik Of Araby
The air in the 1950s was thick with the scent of change, a revolution brewing in the rhythm sections of…
Buddy Holly & The Crickets – Not Fade Away
The year is 1957. The air is thick with the crackle of possibility, and the rigid walls separating country, blues,…
3 Dog Night – Mama Told Me Not To Come
The year is 1970. The decade that began with idealism was closing in a thick haze of cynicism and confusion.…
Three Dog Night – The Show Must Go On
The night was thick and humid, one of those late summer evenings where the air itself seemed to hum with…
The Mamas and The Papas – Dancing Bear (1966)
The memory is not of a stadium or a chart-topping crescendo. It is an internal scene: the low, warm glow…