Miles Davis – Blue in Green
Great Songs The Lullaby of Dawn in a Silent Scene: The Immortal Spirit of Modal Jazz “Blue in Green” is a hidden gem tucked inside the legendary music box that is Kind…
John Prine “The Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness”
A heartbreaking, poetic analysis of a breaking relationship where one person is perpetually running from commitment and self. The late, great John Prine was never a man to chase chart…
Randy Travis & Dolly Parton – Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
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
When Poetry and Pain Became Music in “Tecumseh Valley” Few songs in American Folk music carry the quiet emotional weight of “Tecumseh Valley,” and the performance by Nanci Griffith alongside…
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…