Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You
Oldies Songs An Enduring Promise: The Gentle Heart of the Great Troubadour There are some songs that, through the sheer poetry of their simplicity, become touchstones for a generation, and Townes Van…
Guy Clark – Texas 1947
The Flash of Modernity: A Nickel Flat as a Dime A vivid, masterful snapshot of a forgotten moment in time—the arrival of the future in a small Texas town, seen…
Guy Clark – Like A Coat From The Cold
An Acoustic Sanctuary: The Tender Warmth of Enduring Love A gorgeous, un-sentimental love ballad that portrays a partner’s devotion as a necessary, comforting refuge against life’s chilling uncertainties. There are…
Donny Osmond – Medley of Hits
Six Decades in Song: The Everlasting Charm of a Teen Idol’s Legacy The “Medley of Hits” in Donny Osmond’s Las Vegas residency is a dazzling, retrospective sprint through six decades…
Guy Clark – That Old Time Feeling
The Alchemy of Memory and Longing: A Wistful Ode to a Vanished Past “That Old Time Feeling” is the quintessential Texas Troubadour ballad—a stark, poetic meditation on the passing of…
Steely Dan & Tom Scott – I Got the News
That Unsettling Funk: A Cynical Chronicle of Hollywood Hangers-On and the High Price of Being Hip. Ah, Steely Dan. Just the mention of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen evokes the…
Townes Van Zandt – Lungs
A Prophetic Cry from the Abyss: The Collapsing Lungs of Faith and Hope. If Nanci Griffith painted sun-drenched, gentle scenes of abiding love, Townes Van Zandt descended into the darkest…
Guy Clark – Texas Cookin’
An Authentic, Culinary Ode to the True Soul and Spirit of Texas. Pull up a chair, friends, and pour a cold one. When we talk about the great Texas songwriters—the…
Guy Clark – Let Him Roll
The Poignant Ballad of a Broken Man, His Bottle, and a Dallas Whore, Where Heaven is Just a Faded Memory. The music of Guy Clark has always felt less like…
Ted Nugent – Stormtroopin’
A Relentless, Three-Minute Blast of Raw, Anti-Authoritarian Hard Rock Fury. For those of us who lived through the golden age of hard rock, the transition from the sprawling, blues-soaked introspection…