Nat King Cole – Autumn Leaves
🍂 The Enduring Gold of Nat King Cole’s ‘Autumn Leaves’ The air is cool, the light low and golden. I’m…
Del Reeves – Looking At The World Through A Windshield
The neon signs of a truck stop diner, humming with the promise of bad coffee and a temporary halt, could…
Roger Miller – Do Wacka Do
The mid-1960s were a moment of seismic musical shifts, yet in Nashville, a different kind of revolution was brewing—one less…
Harry Chapin – Taxi
It is a late-night radio memory for a generation. A low voice cuts through the static, a cello line begins…
Crosby Stills Nash – Southern Cross
The year is 1982. The radio is dominated by synth-pop’s slick surfaces, yet through the waves of digital echo comes…
Jerry Reed – Amos Moses
There are pieces of music that arrive like a telegram from a place you’ve never been. They smell of grit,…
The Association – Windy – 1967
The summer of 1967 was a kaleidoscope, a dizzying whirl of political upheaval and psychedelic self-discovery. Amidst the fuzz of…
The Monkees – Valleri
The story of The Monkees is a collision of artifice and ambition, a pop paradox where a manufactured band fought…
Minnie Riperton – Lovin’ You (Live 1975)
I remember late autumn light slicing across my living room, catching dust motes suspended in the air. The needle dropped.…
Louis Armstrong sings “Mack the Knife”
The New York air in the fall of 1955 wasn’t cold yet, but the music industry felt a chill of…