Donny Osmond – When I Fall In Love
Great Songs 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,…
Josh Turner – Would You Go with Me
A Soulful, Old-Fashioned Journey into Shared Destiny Following the undeniable success of “Your Man,” Josh Turner once again leaned into his rich, sepia-toned baritone and his deep appreciation for traditional…
Josh Turner – Your Man
A Classic Country Ballad of Devotion, Wrapped in a Smooth, Baritone Embrace In the era of boundary-pushing “Bro-Country” and genre-bending experimentation, there is a timeless pleasure in a song that…
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Heaven’s Bright Shore
A Soulful Glimpse of the Eternal Homeland Ah, remember the days when the pure, crystalline voice of a young prodigy could stop you in your tracks? We’re talking about Alison…