Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy – In the Town of Ballybay
Oldies Songs A Tender Ballad of Memory and Homeland, Where Time Stands Still in the Town of Ballybay When “In the Town of Ballybay” is mentioned, it does not arrive as a…
Tommy Makem & Liam Clancy – The Dutchman
A quiet portrait of aging, memory, and enduring love—where time may fade the mind, but never the heart When “The Dutchman” found its way into the voices of Tommy Makem…
Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris – LA Freeway – Luckenbach Texas 5 June 2021
Oldies Songs A Song of Leaving That Became a Way of Remembering On June 5, 2021, in the quiet, storied setting of Luckenbach, Texas, Rodney Crowell and Emmylou Harris stood together to…
The Everly Brothers “Wake Up Little Susie” on The Ed Sullivan Show, March 9, 1958
A Harmless Teenage Mistake That Sounded Like Rebellion to a Nation On March 9, 1958, The Everly Brothers stepped onto the stage of The Ed Sullivan Show and performed their…
Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band – Sangria Wine, Nashville 8 July 2021
A Toast to Friendship, Memory, and the Road That Changed Everything On July 8, 2021, in Nashville, Jimmy Buffett stood before a devoted crowd and reached back into his past,…
Jerry Lee Lewis “Breathless”
When Rock and Roll Caught Fire and Refused to Sit Still On February 14, 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis stormed the stage of The Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show with “Breathless”, a…
Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson – Boats to Build
A Song About Building Something Honest in a World That Keeps Moving In the warm, open-air setting of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in July, Guy Clark and Verlon Thompson sat…
Anne Murray on “Daydream Believer”
A Song She Borrowed Lightly, Only to Make It Her Own There is something quietly remarkable about the way Anne Murray came to record “Daydream Believer”, a song forever associated…
Leonard Cohen – I’m Your Man
A quiet confession of devotion and imperfection—a love song that trades grandeur for honesty, and finds something deeper in surrender. When “I’m Your Man” by Leonard Cohen was released in…
The Osmonds – What Could It Be?
A Gentle Plea for Clarity Amidst the Echoes of a Vanished Youth: Finding the Soul Within the Harmonious Questioning of a Brotherly Legacy The year was 1975, a time when…