Joan Baez – “Hickory Wind” song by Gram Parsons & B. Buchanan (San Francisco, 2 Oct. 2025)
Oldies Songs A SONG ABOUT THE ROAD BACK HOME, SUNG BY A WOMAN WHO HAS SPENT A LIFETIME CARRYING OTHER PEOPLE’S MEMORIES IN HER VOICE On the night of October 2, 2025,…
John Prine – Quit Hollerin at Me [1996]
A WEARY MAN’S PLEA FOR SILENCE IN A WORLD THAT NEVER STOPS TALKING By 1995, John Prine had already spent more than two decades proving that he could say more…
Roy Orbison – “In Dreams” (TV SHOW 1987)
A Man Standing Almost Motionless While One of the Greatest Voices in Popular Music History Carried an Entire World of Heartbreak By 1987, Roy Orbison no longer needed to prove…
Gordon Lightfoot – The Circle Is Small
Oldies Songs When Gordon Lightfoot Turned Heartbreak Into Poetry With “The Circle Is Small” Few songwriters ever possessed the quiet emotional precision of Gordon Lightfoot. In “The Circle Is Small,” he delivered…
Showaddywaddy – Doo Wah Diddy
A joyful beat can sometimes carry the sweetest kind of nostalgia — the kind that reminds us how music once made the whole world feel young for three unforgettable minutes.…
One Duet Turned Into A Rumor Country Music Could Never Silence
The Love Story America Imagined Was Never Real — But the Friendship Behind the Music Was Even More Beautiful Few duet partnerships in country music history created more speculation, fascination,…
Anne Murray – Broken Hearted Me
A Quiet Confession of Loss, Where Strength and Vulnerability Meet in Song When Anne Murray released Broken Hearted Me in early 1979, popular music was standing at a crossroads. Disco…
Ray Wylie Hubbard – Up Against The Wall Redneck Mother
BEFORE OUTLAW COUNTRY UNITED THE HIPPIES AND THE REDNECKS, RAY WYLIE HUBBARD GOT BEAT UP TRYING TO BUY BEER Long before Outlaw Country became a celebrated movement, before Willie Nelson…
Jerry Lee Lewis – Would You Take Another Chance On Me
In London, Jerry Lee Lewis Sang “Would You Take Another Chance On Me” Like a Man Trying to Outrun His Own Past For a few fragile minutes in 1983, the…
Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Margo Price – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Four Legendary Voices Turned “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” Into a Living Conversation Between Generations At San Francisco’s sold-out Masonic Auditorium in February 2025, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris,…