Lonestar – Amazed
The memory is indelible: a late-night drive, the headlights cutting a tunnel through the humid darkness, and the radio dial…
Tim McGraw & Faith Hill – It’s Your Love
The late 1990s airwaves were a curious blend of pop sheen and country twang. Nashville’s output had already begun its…
Tim McGraw – Humble And Kind
I was sitting in my car late one evening, pulling into the driveway after a long day of reviewing music…
Tim McGraw – Live Like You Were Dying
It was the summer of 2004, and the air felt thick with a strange blend of unease and a desperate…
Luke Combs – Beer Never Broke My Heart
It’s 1:47 AM on a Tuesday, and the rain outside is the kind that settles in for the duration. I’m…
Thomas Rhett – Die A Happy Man
The studio lights were warm, perhaps too warm, on the day Thomas Rhett tracked the vocal for “Die A Happy…
Lady Antebellum – Need You Now
The radio always sounds different after midnight. The static retreats, replaced by a clarity, an open-road resonance that seems to…
John Michael Montgomery – I Swear
The first time I heard it, the car radio glowed amber against a deep, late-night black. I was maybe sixteen,…
Clint Black – A Better Man
The year was 1989. The airwaves were thick with a new energy in country music—a blend of polished production and…
Jeannie C. Riley – Harper Valley P.T.A.
The year is 1968, and the world is on fire. From Chicago to Paris, the old order is being challenged,…