James McMurtry – We Can’t Make It Here
Oldies Songs A Quiet Protest in Plain Words: How “We Can’t Make It Here” Turned Everyday American Lives into a Moral Reckoning When James McMurtry released “We Can’t Make It Here” in…
James McMurtry – Choctaw Bingo
A crowded roadside barroom of American life, where laughter, chaos, and truth collide in one unforgettable night When “Choctaw Bingo” appeared on James McMurtry’s 2002 album Saint Mary of the…
John Prine & Steve Goodman – City of New Orleans
Oldies Songs A rolling hymn to memory, movement, and the quiet brotherhood found along the rails of American folk music Few songs in the American folk canon feel as lived in, as…
Jackson Browne & Warren Zevon – Hasten Down the Wind
A meditation on letting go, where friendship, regret, and hard-won grace move quietly with the wind When Jackson Browne released Hasten Down the Wind in the autumn of 1976, it…
Guy Clark – Magnolia Wind
A quiet meditation on love, impermanence, and the fragile beauty that passes like a magnolia wind Released in 2002 on the album The Dark, “Magnolia Wind” stands as one of…
Linda Ronstadt – Hurt so Bad (Live in Hollywood, CA 4/24/1980)
Linda Ronstadt – Hurt So Bad: When Pain Is Sung as a Living Truth On the night of April 24, 1980, at Television Center Studios in Hollywood, California, Hurt So…
Peter Mulvey – Shirt
A quiet meditation on vulnerability, memory, and the fragile dignity of ordinary lives, “Shirt” unfolds like a whispered confession carried by acoustic strings and lived-in truth. In the landscape of…
Jackson Browne & Warren Zevon – Carmelita
A Song of Desperation and Grace: Carmelita as a Portrait of Broken Souls Seeking Mercy Few songs from the early 1970s capture emotional collapse with such raw tenderness as “Carmelita”,…
Wizzard – You Can Dance Your Rock ‘N’ Roll
A celebration of freedom and youth, “You Can Dance Your Rock ’N’ Roll” captures the moment when rock music stopped asking for permission and simply invited everyone to move. Released…
The Price of Fame and the Collapse of Jerry Lee Lewis
When Genius Meets Its Reckoning: The Price of Fame and the Fall of Jerry Lee Lewis In the late months of 1957, Jerry Lee Lewis stood at the very summit…