Rita Coolidge – We’re All Alone (1978)
The year is 1978. The air is thick with the competing sounds of disco’s glittering excess and punk’s defiant sneer.…
Don Williams – You’re My Best Friend (1975)
The year is 1975. The airwaves are thick with the shimmer of disco and the growl of arena rock, a…
Ronnie Milsap – It Was Almost Like A Song (1977)
The late 1970s. The air was thick with the scent of vinyl and the promise of a sound that could…
Glen Campbell – Southern Nights (1977)
It was a late, humid night, the kind where the air felt thick enough to chew, and the only company…
The Charlie Daniels Band – The South’s Gonna Do It Again (1974)
The humidity hangs heavy and the air conditioner groans—a familiar sound track to a thousand nights spent chasing the ghost…
Red Sovine – Teddy Bear (1976)
It is easy to dismiss a spoken-word song from the mid-1970s, especially one drenched in the maudlin syrup of truck-driving…
Conway Twitty – I Can’t Stop Loving You (1970)
The moment the needle drops on Conway Twitty’s 1970 rendition of “I Can’t Stop Loving You,” you are not just…
John Denver – Rocky Mountain High (1972)
The American songbook is full of road-trip hymns and anthems of place, but few capture the sheer, ecstatic liberation of…
Sea of Love – Phil Phillips
The cassette tape is worn, the label peeling slightly at the corner. It’s midnight on a coastal highway, the radio…
I’m A Man – Yardbirds
The night was hot, the basement air thick with the smell of stale beer and ozone from abused amplifiers. I…