Jackson Browne – Running On Empty
Oldies Songs 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…
Eddy Arnold – Make the World Go Away
Oldies Songs The Timeless Echo of a Heartache that Asks for the World to Pause A plea to an estranged lover to let a moment of forgiveness and passion erase all past…
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…
John Prine – All the Best
A Post-Breakup Benediction That’s Equal Parts Sincere Blessing and Wry Warning Oh, to be young and to have known a heart cracked wide open. There’s a particular sting, a unique…
Fats Domino – Kansas City
Oldies Music A joyous, rolling New Orleans R&B declaration of a man determined to reach the Mecca of romance in the American heartland. The rhythm of the piano, that irresistible, loping shuffle,…
Johnny Rodriguez – If I’d Left It Up To You
The Poignant Confession of a Man Who Should Have Let Go A Tender Tale of Too Much Love and Lost Chances There’s a gentle ache that settles in when the…
Bob Seger – Beautiful Loser
Oldies Songs Bob Seger – Beautiful Loser: A Poignant Ode to the Dreams That Elude Us In 1975, when Bob Seger released “Beautiful Loser,” it was as though he had struck a…
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…
Fats Domino – Please Don’t Leave Me
An essential plea of devotion wrapped in a New Orleans boogie-woogie beat. There are certain songs, friends, that transport us back to the sticky-floored dance halls and the crackle of…