The Kalin Twins – When (1959)
The air in the studio was thick with the faint scent of stale cigarette smoke and freshly cut lacquer. It…
The Fleetwoods – Mr Blue
The late 1950s—the transition point. Rock and roll had crashed the gates, but the quiet storms of vocal pop still…
The Chantay’s – Pipeline
The first sound is not a crash, but a whisper of distortion, a low, ominous rumble that sounds like the…
The Darlings – Dooley
The stage is set not in a smoky Nashville honky-tonk or a dusty Appalachian holler, but under the soft, diffused…
The Small Faces – Lazy Sunday Afternoon
The door to the pub swings open, spilling a plume of stale beer and a chorus of loud, laughing chatter…
Keith Whitley – When You Say Nothing at All
The air in the listening room is still, just after midnight. A single tube light hums softly in the periphery,…
Garth Brooks – If Tomorrow Never Comes (live 1989)
There is a moment in the dead of night, usually between two and four in the morning, when the world…
Shania Twain – You’re Still The One
I remember the late 90s radio landscape vividly. It was a cacophony of bubblegum pop, surging alternative rock, and the…
Small Faces with P.P. Arnold – Tin Soldier (1968)
The year is 1967. London is still officially swinging, but the psychedelic summer is fading into a gritty, autumnal reality.…
Dusty Springfield – You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
The song begins with a gasp—or perhaps it is the sound of the world holding its breath. A tentative, almost…