Barbara Lynn – You’ll Lose A Good Thing
The world of 1962 R&B was a landscape of big voices, surging arrangements, and often, songs written by a professional…
Joey Dee & The Starliters – Peppermint Twist.
The air was thick with smoke, cheap perfume, and a frantic energy that hadn’t been seen on a dance floor…
Dave Brubeck – Take Five
It begins not with a melody, but with a pulse. A nervous, elegant, slightly lopsided heartbeat that instantly sets it…
Shelley Fabares – Johnny Angel (1962)
The year is 1962. Before the roar of the British Invasion changed everything, American pop music lived in a delicate,…
Sharon and Cheryl White – The Thank You, Lord Medley
🙏 The Sound of Surrender: Sharon and Cheryl White’s “The Thank You, Lord Medley” I. The memory begins with a…
Gene Watson – The Fightin’ Side of Me
It begins not with a blare, but with a palpable sense of duty. An almost reverential hush precedes the first…
The Browns – Three Bells
The Valley of Jimmy Brown: Context and Career Peak The story of “The Three Bells” is the story of a…
Roy Clark & Buck Trent – Ghost Riders in the Sky
To understand this particular recording, you must first place Roy Clark. By the 1970s, he was less a musician and…
Jimmy Dean “To a Sleeping Beauty”
It’s late. Not just late, but the quiet, indigo hour that precedes the first pale wash of morning. The world…
G. Sheppard & Kelly Lang – Islands in the Stream
It’s late afternoon, the sun low enough to throw long shadows across a recording console that has seen decades of…