Sara Evans and the Night the Grand Ole Opry First Heard Something Special
Oldies Songs Sara Evans and the Night the Grand Ole Opry First Heard Something Special There are some debut moments in country music that live on far longer than anyone expects. They…
Johnny Rodriguez – I Can’t Stop Loving You(Marion, Indiana, 20-12-2014)
A Night When “I Can’t Stop Loving You” Brought Decades of Country Memories Back to Life On December 20, 2014, in the quiet Midwestern town of Marion, Indiana, the stage…
Roy Orbison – Mean Woman Blues (live at the Farm Aid concert in Champaign, Illinois on September 22, 1985)
A fiery return to rock and roll roots as “Mean Woman Blues” roared across the Farm Aid stage, reminding the world that Roy Orbison could still command a crowd with…
Lucinda Williams – Drunken Angel
A Song for the Fallen Troubadour: Remembering a Brilliant Life Through Drunken Angel Released in 1998 on the landmark album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, “Drunken Angel” by Lucinda…
Jerry Jeff Walker – LA Freeway(Jerry Jeff with John Inman recorded live in Austin in 1984 for the PBS series, “Austin Pickers”
A Song About Leaving the City Behind and Finding Freedom on the Open Road When Jerry Jeff Walker sat down in Austin in 1984 to perform LA Freeway for the…
Don McLean – Empty Chairs
When Love Is Gone and Silence Remains: The Quiet Heartbreak Inside “Empty Chairs” Few songs in the early 1970s captured the fragile loneliness of lost love as gently and honestly…
Guy Clark – The Cape(Recorded live at Marathon Recorders in Nashville as part of the Music Fog Marathon during the 2011 Americana Music Festival)
A song about courage, youth, and the quiet bravery of growing older, “The Cape” became one of the most heartfelt moments of Guy Clark’s later performances. In September 2011, inside…
The Everly Brothers – Kentucky(live from Chequers, 1968)
A Tender Return to Home and Harmony in Kentucky Few sibling harmonies in American popular music have ever sounded as effortless or as emotionally direct as those of The Everly…
Billy Joe Shaver – Sweet Mama(live at the Farm Aid concert in Austin, Texas on July 4, 1986.)
A Rough-Edged Love Song from the Heart of Texas: Billy Joe Shaver’s “Sweet Mama” When Billy Joe Shaver stepped onto the stage at the Farm Aid concert in Austin, Texas…
The Everly Brothers – Love is Strange(1983 – in the Royal Albert Hall London)
When Two Voices Found Each Other Again: The Everly Brothers Turn a Simple Love Song into a Reunion Memory On the evening of September 23, 1983, one of the most…