By 2014, Johnny Rodriguez Wasn’t Singing About Heartbreak Anymore. He Was Remembering It. At Trader’s Village in San Antonio, “How Could I Love Her So Much” no longer sounded like…
Anne Murray Didn’t Sing “Cry Me A River” With Anger. She Sang It With Experience. On the 1993 CBC special Croonin’, Anne Murray transformed a famous torch song into something…
By 1989, The Everly Brothers Were No Longer Singing About Young Love. They Were Singing About Memory. In Melbourne, Don and Phil Everly performed “All I Have To Do Is…
“Townes Van Zandt Could Make Self Destruction Sound Like Poetry.” In “Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold,” the smile was gentle, the melody was easy, but beneath it lived one of…
“Emmylou Harris Didn’t Sing Hank Williams. She Mourned Him.” In “May You Never Be Alone Like Me,” the loneliness of Hank Williams found a second life inside the fragile grace…
The Timeless Charm of Mud and “The Secrets That You Keep” In the rich landscape of 1970s British pop rock, few groups carried the effortless charm and natural chemistry of…
In a Quiet British Television Studio, Emmylou Harris Turned “Prayer in Open D” Into a Moment of Pure Reflection In 1994, during a beautifully understated appearance on the British television…
On a Warm Night in Minnesota, The Everly Brothers Turned a Radio Show Into a Living Memory of America’s Musical Past On May 16, 1987, inside the historic World Theater…
THREE LEGENDARY VOICES STOOD TOGETHER IN 1970 AND TURNED A TELEVISION STAGE INTO PURE AMERICAN MUSIC HISTORY There are certain television performances that feel larger than entertainment. They become snapshots…
A Quiet Morning of Memory and Music, When Nanci Griffith Welcomed Jerry Jeff Walker to Sing “Morning Song for Sally” There are performances that entertain, and then there are performances…
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