The Everly Brothers – Mama Tried – on the Smother Brothers Show
Oldies Songs Two Harmonies Meeting One Honky Tonk Confession, As The Everly Brothers Turned A Prison Song Into Something Deeply Human By the late 1960s, The Everly Brothers were no longer simply…
Steve Earle – “The Galway Girl” and “Copperhead Road” (Live at The Loft at City Winery)
Two Songs, Two Worlds, And One Weathered Voice Still Carrying The Fire Of American Storytelling When Steve Earle walked onto the stage at The Loft at City Winery in October…
Sam Bush & Emmylou Harris, “Walls of Time”, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, San Francisco
A Song About Love Enduring Through The Years, Sung By Two Voices That Carried The Spirit Of Bluegrass Across Generations On a cool October afternoon at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass…
Dwight Yoakam – Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down – Helotes, Texas
A Honky Tonk Heartbreak Revived Under The Texas Night, Where Old Country Pain Still Sounded Proud And Alive When Dwight Yoakam stepped onto the stage in Helotes, Texas to perform…
The Everly Brothers – A Prairie Home Companion – In 1987
Two Brothers, Two Voices, And A Sound That Still Carries The Warmth Of Another America When Don and Phil Everly appeared on A Prairie Home Companion in 1987, it felt…
Jerry Jeff Walker – Long, Long Time (Live 1989)
A Gentle Song About Heartbreak, Memory, And The Kind Of Love That Never Completely Fades Away By the time Jerry Jeff Walker performed “Long, Long Time” at Gruene Hall in…
Guy Clark & Verlon Thompson – Dublin Blues – at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival 2011
A Song For The Lonely Traveler, Carrying Regret, Love, And The Kind Of Memories That Never Truly Leave When Guy Clark stepped onto the stage at the Edmonton Folk Music…
Johnny Cash & Emmylou Harris – Where the Soul of Man Never Dies
A Hymn Of Hope And Reunion, Sung By Two Voices That Carried Faith, Comfort, And Quiet Strength Into Countless Homes In 1981, during the television special “Johnny Cash and the…
Eddy Raven – I Got Mexico
A Sunlit Escape Song Hiding the Lonely Truth That Heartbreak Always Follows Us When Eddy Raven released “I Got Mexico” in January 1984, it sounded like freedom. The rhythm moved…
The Two Men Who Refused To Let Anne Murray Walk Away From Music
The Two Men Who Refused To Let Anne Murray Walk Away From Music At the 2006 Canadian Country Music Awards in St. John’s, Newfoundland, one of the most touching moments…