Gordon Lightfoot – Race Among The Ruins
Great Songs A reflective look at past loves and hard lessons, driven by a determination to seize the promise of a new day. In the mid-1970s, the landscape of popular music was…
Davy Jones – Girl
A Timeless Serenade to the Simple Beauty of a Girl’s Affection There are songs that define an era, those anthems that blast from every radio, lodge themselves in the charts,…
John Prine & Iris DeMent – When Two Worlds Collide
When Opposites Attract, the World Gets an Unforgettable Tune About Beautifully Failed Love. The gentle, plaintive strains of “When Two Worlds Collide,” featuring the immortal John Prine and the luminous…
Gordon Lightfoot – Beautiful
A Poetic Testament to Enduring Affection and the Sweetness of Simple Love The quiet elegance of Gordon Lightfoot’s “Beautiful” is a masterclass in folk-rock sincerity, capturing a simple, profound love…
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Railroad Bill
The Legend on the Rails: Ramblin’ Jack Elliott’s Take on an American Folk Outlaw Oh, to be young again, sitting cross-legged on a dusty floor, the scratch and hiss of…
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
The song is a bittersweet, yet firm, declaration of moving on after a failed relationship, masking deep hurt with a veneer of nonchalance. There are certain songs, friends, that become…
Mud – Rocket
Mud and the Glam Rock Explosion That Swept Through the Netherlands in 1974 In 1974, the British glam rock group Mud became one of the most talked about international acts…
Mud – The Cat Crept in
That Glam-Rock Purr: A Feline Femme Fatale Slips into the Heart of the Seventies Ah, the 1970s! A time when platform boots scraped the ceiling, flares flapped like flags in…
Don McLean – Vincent
The Poetic Empathy of a Solitary Soul: Don McLean’s Timeless Tribute to a Misunderstood Masterpiece There are songs that capture a moment in time, and then there are those rare…
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott – Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms
A timeless folk and bluegrass tune about the lure of love over labor. Oh, the road less traveled—it has always held a special mystique, hasn’t it? For those of us…