Randy Travis & Dolly Parton – Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
Great Songs A hauntingly beautiful question about remembrance and unforgotten passion from a love left behind. Ah, Country Music. It possesses a singular magic, doesn’t it? A way of distilling the most…
Nanci Griffith & Guy Clark – Desperados Waiting for a Train
A poignant, autobiographical sketch of a fading Western hero, symbolizing the end of an era and the wisdom passed down to a young boy. If the previous song felt like…
Chris Norman – Woman In Love
A passionate declaration of commitment from a man utterly consumed by love. There are certain songs, aren’t there, that feel less like music and more like a warm, faded photograph…
Donny Osmond – When I Fall In Love
Eternal Love Song: The Warm Promise of a Teen Idol If any song defines the 1970s through its tenderness and endless romance, it must be the ballads sung by teen…
Donny Osmond – You Are So Beautiful
Eternal Love Expressed Through the Touching Voice of an Icon Ah, Donny Osmond. That name instantly takes us back to the dazzling 1970s — an era of bedroom walls covered…
Alison Krauss – That Kind of Love
An Ode to the All-Consuming, Reckless Power of True Love When the subject turns to the sublime purity of American roots music, to the place where bluegrass, country, and folk…
Nanci Griffith & Arlo Guthrie – Tecumseh Valley
The Woven Tapestry of Sorrow: A Ballad for the Lost Girl of the Heartland Ah, “Tecumseh Valley.” The very title settles in the soul with the weight of rich, dark…
John Denver – Boy from the Country
An Anthem for the Outlier and the Call of the Wild Heart For those of us who came of age during the gentle, earth-conscious 1970s, the music of John Denver…
Barbara Mandrell & George Jones – I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool
A Cultural Anthem That Defined an Era of Country Music In 1981, country music was at a crossroads. The genre was booming, propelled into the mainstream by the crossover success…
Alison Krauss – The Scarlet Tide
A Haunting Meditation on War, Loss, and the Enduring Hope for Peace When the conversation turns to music that evokes the deepest parts of the American experience—the history, the heartbreak,…