David Cassidy: What Really Killed the Partridge Family Star
Oldies Songs David Cassidy: The Shining Teen Idol Whose Stardom Could Not Silence His Private Sorrows As a specialist in popular music of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, I see David Cassidy…
David Cassidy ♥ Susan Dey -Dusty Springfield- I Only Want To Be With You
A Joyful Declaration of Love That Captures the Simple, Unshakable Desire to Be Close to the One Who Makes Life Shine Few songs in the early 1960s captured the breathless…
The Life & Legacy of Middle Of The Road’s SALLY CARR
From a Scottish Village to Global Pop Stardom: The Enduring Voice of Sally Carr As someone who has spent decades studying and documenting the popular music of the 1960s through…
Sally Carr – Pretty Boy Blue
“Pretty Boy Blue” – A Gentle Pop Ballad Where Innocence, Longing, and the Fragility of Young Love Quietly Meet Among the many European pop records of the early 1970s, “Pretty…
Iris DeMent – Let the Mystery Be
“Let the Mystery Be” – A Gentle Hymn About Faith, Doubt, and the Quiet Beauty of Not Knowing When Iris DeMent released “Let the Mystery Be” in 1992 on her…
Solomon Burke & Emmylou Harris – We’re Gonna Hold On(live at Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre on September 25th 2006)
Oldies Songs A Night of Faith and Enduring Love in “We’re Gonna Hold On” On September 25, 2006, the historic Belcourt Theatre in Nashville welcomed an unforgettable musical meeting when Solomon Burke…
Chris Andrews – Yesterday Man
A Bright Anthem of Self-Worth: “Yesterday Man” and the Quiet Confidence of Letting Go When “Yesterday Man” by Chris Andrews arrived in the autumn of 1965, it carried a light,…
Carlene Jones with Blaze Foley – None for the Shepherd
A Lonesome Prayer from the Edge of the Road: When Lost Souls Sing for the Shepherd Few songs in American roots music capture loneliness and spiritual searching quite like “None…
The Everly Brothers – Down in the willow garden(Tour 2005)
A Dark Appalachian Ballad Revisited: “Down in the Willow Garden” Echoes Through the Voices of the Everly Brothers In 2005, the haunting beauty of an old murder ballad found new…
“SHE SANG A PATSY CLINE CLASSIC ON HER VERY FIRST NIGHT — AND 28 YEARS LATER, PEOPLE STILL REMEMBER EXACTLY HOW IT FELT.”
SHE SANG A PATSY CLINE CLASSIC ON HER VERY FIRST NIGHT The Voice She Grew Up Listening To Long before her own songs ever reached the radio, Sara Evans was…