Eddie Cochran – Somethin’ Else
The air in the garage was thick with humidity and the smell of old oil, but the radio didn’t care.…
Paul Anka – Tonight, My Love,Tonight
The air is thick, close, smelling faintly of dust motes suspended in the light of a single, bare table lamp.…
The Everly Brothers – Gone, Gone, Gone
The year is 1964. The air crackles with change, a sharp, electric energy imported on the waves of the British…
Ramblin’ Rose – Nat King Cole
The air in my grandfather’s living room was always thick with the scent of pipe tobacco and the low murmur…
Little Richard – Long Tall Sally
The year is 1956. The soundscape is still segmented—R&B on one side, polite pop on the other, and country simmering…
Dean Martin – My Woman, My Woman, My Wife
The first time I really heard this song, it wasn’t on an old console hi-fi, nor in some gleaming, curated…
The Kinks – Apeman
The needle drops. A dry, crisp acoustic guitar strums a rhythmic foundation, a sound immediately alien to the sprawling, electrified…
Gordon Lightfoot – Song For A Winter’s Night
The world outside the glass had dissolved into a monochrome study of slate and silver. I remember the late-night drive,…
Dean Martin – Houston
The night was impossibly dark, cut only by the smear of neon across a rain-slicked highway sign. This is the…
The Chi-Lites – Toby
The air in the room is heavy and still, the kind of quiet that only descends late at night after…