Kenny Loggins – Footloose
Oldies Songs A Time Capsule of Pure Joy and Defiance: The Song That Unbanned Dancing A jubilant call to embrace youthful abandon and defy restrictive old-world rules through the sheer power of…
Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone
The Roar of the 80s: How a Soundtrack Song Became the Ultimate Anthem of High-Octane Thrill An adrenaline-fueled ode to pushing limits and embracing the thrilling risk of living life…
Jackson Browne – Running On Empty
The Open Road and the Human Soul: The Timeless Ballad of Perpetual Motion A metaphor for a restless life, chasing the horizon, yet always feeling like you’re running behind. When…
Shaun Cassidy – Taxi Dancer
An Emotive Look at the Price of Fame and Misunderstood Desire For those of us who came of age in the vibrant, sometimes overwhelming, era of late ’70s pop, the…
Nanci Griffith & James Hooker – Gulf Coast Highway
An Enduring Portrait of Love and Labor on the Backroads of the American South Ah, there are some songs that don’t just speak to you—they settle in, like a quiet…
Shaun Cassidy – Once Bitten Twice Shy
An Ode to Caution: The Price of Experience in Rock and Roll Oh, the late seventies and early eighties. A time when the echoes of teenybopper fever were starting to…
Shaun Cassidy – She’s Right
An Anthem for Adolescent Angst: A Confession of Teen Insecurity and Misunderstanding Oh, the late 1970s. For a certain generation, those years were a shimmering, Technicolor dream, largely thanks to…
Shaun Cassidy – It’s Too Late
That Cruel Twist of Fate: When Love’s Door Slams Shut Oh, to be young again in the late 1970s, when the airwaves were still buzzing with the infectious energy of…
Nanci Griffith & Guy Clark – Do Re Mi
A timeless folk anthem warning of the false promises of the promised land. The Dust Bowl Ballad with a Texas Folk Heart Oh, the memories a song can stir! Cast…
Nanci Griffith & Guy Clark – Desperados Waiting for a Train
An affectionate eulogy for an aging hero, told through the lens of a Texas childhood. The version of “Desperados Waiting for a Train” featuring Nanci Griffith and the song’s legendary…