Behind the TV Smile, The Partridge Family’s Storybook Love Gave David Cassidy His Most Tender Moment on 1971’s Sound Magazine
Storybook Love proves that beneath the bright television polish, David Cassidy could find a quiet,...
Classic Oldies
Three Voices, One Reckoning: Linda Ronstadt’s 1987 “After the Gold Rush” With Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris
On the 1987 Trio album, Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris turned After the...
A Voice, a Legacy, a Farewell: Emmylou Harris’s “How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower” Was Her 2008 Salute to June Carter Cash
In “How She Could Sing the Wildwood Flower,” Emmylou Harris turns remembrance into music, honoring...
Before Gillian Welch Had a Debut, Emmylou Harris Turned Orphan Girl Into the Haunted Heart of 1995’s Wrecking Ball
On Orphan Girl, Emmylou Harris sings abandonment as a spiritual passage, not a complaint. Guided...
The Quiet Crossroads of 1980: How Linda Ronstadt and J.D. Souther’s Hearts Against the Wind Gave Urban Cowboy Its Soul
A tender soundtrack duet, Hearts Against the Wind caught Linda Ronstadt between honky-tonk heartache and...
The Night the Ryman Heard Bill Monroe Again: Emmylou Harris’ Walls of Time on 1992’s At the Ryman With The Nash Ramblers
On At the Ryman, Emmylou Harris turned Walls of Time into a homecoming, carrying Bill...
That old country ache returned: Emmylou Harris’ Making Believe on Luxury Liner carried Kitty Wells into the Hot Band years
On Luxury Liner, Emmylou Harris sang Making Believe as if classic honky-tonk sorrow had stepped...
When Creedence Clearwater Revival Turned Strange: John Fogerty’s Rude Awakening #2 Closed Pendulum in 1970
Rude Awakening #2 is the sound of John Fogerty refusing to let Creedence Clearwater Revival...
Before Creedence Had a Name, John Fogerty and The Golliwogs’ 1967 Brown-Eyed Girl Caught a Band on the Edge of History
Before Creedence Clearwater Revival had a name, Brown-Eyed Girl preserved John Fogerty and The Golliwogs...
Behind the TV Smile, The Partridge Family’s ‘Looking Through the Eyes of Love’ Made Shopping Bag David Cassidy’s Most Tender 1972 Moment
A soft love song wrapped in television sunshine, Looking Through the Eyes of Love quietly...
The 1980 Edge Nobody Expected: Linda Ronstadt’s I Can’t Let Go on Mad Love Recast a Hollies Classic
On Mad Love, Linda Ronstadt took I Can’t Let Go out of its swinging 1960s...
The Comeback Few Expected: Bee Gees’ Alone Opened a New Chapter With Still Waters in 1997
In 1997, “Alone” reminded the world that the Bee Gees were never just a memory....
One Song, Two Heartbeats: Why Bee Gees’ More Than a Woman and Tavares Both Shaped Saturday Night Fever
More Than a Woman became one of Saturday Night Fever’s quiet masterstrokes because the film...
A Roll Call That Still Hurts: Neil Diamond’s Done Too Soon and the Strange Power of 1971’s Stones
Done Too Soon turns a breathless list of famous names into something deeper and more...
It Was More Than a Cover: Josh Turner’s I Saw the Light and the Quiet Power of the 2018 I Serve a Savior Sessions
In Josh Turner’s live 2018 reading of I Saw the Light, a familiar Hank Williams...
A 1957 Classic, Suddenly Grown Up: Linda Ronstadt’s That’ll Be the Day Became 1976’s Definitive Buddy Holly Cover
Linda Ronstadt did not simply revive That’ll Be the Day in 1976. On Hasten Down...
Before Nashville Claimed Her, Emmylou Harris Found Her Fate in Gram Parsons’ ‘Return of the Grievous Angel’ (1974)
A drifting highway hymn became a handoff of destiny: on Return of the Grievous Angel,...
The Song Many Fans Misremember: Emmylou Harris Made The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 Her Quiet Late-’70s Masterpiece
Emmylou Harris heard in The Pilgrim, Chapter 33 not just a drifter’s legend, but the...
After He Faced the Names, John Fogerty’s The Wall Became His Quietest and Deepest War Reckoning
Long after the slogans faded and the headlines aged, The Wall found John Fogerty standing...
Behind the Spotlight, the Struggle: David Cassidy’s ‘When I’m a Rock ’n’ Roll Star’ on The Higher They Climb Was His Fight Against a Manufactured Image
In When I’m a Rock ’n’ Roll Star, David Cassidy turns the fantasy of fame...
Before the Breakthrough, Linda Ronstadt’s 1972 Love Has No Pride Was Already Her First Great Heartbreaker
Love Has No Pride was one of those early Linda Ronstadt recordings that seemed to...
The Duet That Sealed Their Magic: Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville’s When Something Is Wrong with My Baby on 1989’s Cry Like a Rainstorm, Howl Like the Wind
On When Something Is Wrong with My Baby, Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville did more...
Before Saturday Night Fever Took Over, Bee Gees’ Words on Here at Last… Bee Gees… Live Preserved Their Most Human Stage Sound
On Here at Last… Bee Gees… Live, Words returns not as a memory piece but...
When Three Brothers Became One Voice: Bee Gees’ Run to Me on To Whom It May Concern
Gentle on the surface and quietly affecting underneath, Run to Me is one of the...
After 40 Years, the Quiet Song That Changed Everything: Neil Diamond’s Pretty Amazing Grace and the No. 1 Rise of Home Before Dark
Pretty Amazing Grace gave Neil Diamond one of his most moving late-career statements, and on...
Before Elvis Heard It, Neil Diamond’s ‘And the Grass Won’t Pay No Mind’ Gave 1969 One of Its Softest Heartaches
Before Elvis Presley carried it into a different spotlight, Neil Diamond‘s 1969 original of And...
A Country Bloodline Revealed: Why Josh Turner Chose ‘I Can Tell by the Way You Dance’ to Honor Vern Gosdin on 2020’s Country State of Mind
Josh Turner‘s version of I Can Tell by the Way You Dance on Country State...
The Second Straight No. 1 That Meant More: Josh Turner’s Would You Go with Me Still Defines Your Man 20 Years Later
Would You Go with Me did more than follow a hit. It confirmed that Josh...
It Was More Than a Comeback: Linda Ronstadt’s 1992 Frenesí and the Grammy-Winning Heart of Mas Canciones
Frenesí let Linda Ronstadt do something rare: honor a classic Mexican love song while revealing...
A Drifters Classic Reborn: Emmylou Harris Turned ‘Save the Last Dance for Me’ into Country Grace on Blue Kentucky Girl
Save the Last Dance for Me became something deeper in Emmylou Harris‘s hands: not a...