Nanci Griffith – The Wing And The Wheel
Oldies Songs 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…
Barbara Mandrell – (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don’t Want To Be Right
When Love Defies Convention, the Heart Votes for Beautiful Wrongness Oh, what tangled webs we weave when the heart decides to follow a path the world calls forbidden. Long before…
David Cassidy – It’s One Of Those Nights (Yes Love)
The melancholy pop anthem of a lonely night, perfectly balancing teen idol gloss with genuine heartache. For those of us who came of age in the 1970s, the name David…