Jerry Lee Lewis – One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)
I first heard this piece of music on a cassette tape, late at night, in the pale glow of a…
Jerry Lee Lewis “You Win Again” (1979)
It’s 3:00 AM on a stretch of highway where the asphalt has begun to look like wet obsidian under the…
Fats Domino – The Sheik Of Araby
The air in the 1950s was thick with the scent of change, a revolution brewing in the rhythm sections of…
Buddy Holly & The Crickets – Not Fade Away
The year is 1957. The air is thick with the crackle of possibility, and the rigid walls separating country, blues,…
3 Dog Night – Mama Told Me Not To Come
The year is 1970. The decade that began with idealism was closing in a thick haze of cynicism and confusion.…
Three Dog Night – The Show Must Go On
The night was thick and humid, one of those late summer evenings where the air itself seemed to hum with…
The Mamas and The Papas – Dancing Bear (1966)
The memory is not of a stadium or a chart-topping crescendo. It is an internal scene: the low, warm glow…
The Mamas & The Papas – Got a Feelin’
The scent of dust motes dancing in a single shaft of late afternoon sun, the heavy, muffled thud of a…
Stand by Me (Otis Redding)
The first time I heard Otis Redding’s version of “Stand by Me,” it wasn’t a discovery—it was a recognition. Not…
Neil Diamond – Morningside
The air in the studio, even fifty years later, feels heavy. It is the imagined silence between the final, sighing…