Steve Wariner – Your Memory
Oldies Songs The Phantom Lover Who Just Won’t Leave the Heart’s Ballroom Steve Wariner’s “Your Memory” is a cornerstone of early 1980s country music, a mournful ballad that perfectly captures the lingering…
Air Supply – Sleigh Ride
The Sound of Enduring Romance Gliding Through a Winter Wonderland For those of us whose musical memories are perpetually draped in the lush, soaring harmonies of the 1980s, the soft-rock…
Nanci Griffith – The Wing And The Wheel
The Poetry of Departure: A Meditation on Lost Friends and Unspent Dreams Nanci Griffith’s “The Wing and the Wheel” is a crystalline piece of poetic melancholy, a gentle-yet-profound reflection on…
Shaun Cassidy – Walk Away
An Intimate Confession of Loss and the Pain of Necessary Separation Shaun Cassidy’s “Walk Away” is an emotional deep cut from the gilded, yet often misunderstood, era of the 1970s…
Randy Travis – Diggin’ Up Bones
A haunting, honky-tonk portrait of a heartbroken man resurrecting painful memories of a lost love, one relic at a time. Oh, if a song ever captured the sheer, agonizing solitude…
Nanci Griffith – Lone Star State Of Mind
The embrace of a wide-open, heartfelt country sound, rooted in the unbreakable spirit of Texas. Ah, Nanci Griffith. Just the name itself conjures up the image of a bright, intelligent…
Shaun Cassidy – Our Night
When the Lights Dimmed: The Quiet End of a Teen Idol’s Reign The simple, universal plea of wanting one perfect, uninterrupted moment with a loved one. Ah, Shaun Cassidy. The…
John Denver – Boy from the Country
An Anthem for the Outlier and the Call of the Wild Heart For those of us who came of age during the gentle, earth-conscious 1970s, the music of John Denver…
Jackson Browne – The Pretender
An Anthem for Lost Innocence: The Painful Capitulation of Youthful Ideals to the Comfort of Convention The song “The Pretender” by Jackson Browne is a melancholic meditation on the slow…
Barbara Mandrell – Sleeping Single In A Double Bed
When the Loneliness of a Breakup Fills the Space of a Double Bed There are songs that simply walk you down memory lane, and then there are songs that capture…