Chris Norman & Lory Bonnie Bianco – Send a Sign to My Heart
Great Songs A desperate plea for reunion and reconciliation after the crushing blow of a broken love. The mid-1990s, for many of us, was a time of looking back, a softer decade…
Nanci Griffith – From Clare To Here
An Epic Ballad of the Longing for Home, Carried Across the Sea on a Whispering Voice The late, great storyteller Nanci Griffith had a profound gift for finding the universal…
Justin Townes Earle – If I Was the Devil
A Seductive Offer of Sinful Perfection and Dark Comfort Ah, to listen to the late, great Justin Townes Earle—it’s like opening a dusty, leather-bound book filled with tragicomic tales of…
John Prine – Christmas In Prison
Longing for Connection: A Christmas Song for the Soul in Solitude Oh, the magic and the melancholy of a Christmas song by John Prine! His 1973 classic, “Christmas In Prison,”…
C.C.Catch & Chris Norman Stumblin’ in
The Sweet Stumble into Unexpected Love The gentle, almost apologetic guitar strum that opens “Stumblin’ In” is, for many, the sound of an era—though perhaps not the era most remember…
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
An Enduring Symphony of Desperation and Desire Few songs from the great melodramatic expanse of the 1980s loom as large or ring as true with untamed theatrical passion as Bonnie…
Buddy Miller & Emmylou Harris: “A Thing About You”
An Electric Memory of Enduring Love’s Undying Sentiment “A Thing About You” is a heart-tugging acknowledgment of an everlasting, unshakable emotional bond, even in the face of separation. The Uncharted…
Nanci Griffith & Emmylou Harris – Are You Tired of Me, Darling?
The Quiet Ache of Yesteryear: Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris‘s Melancholic Duet For those of us who came of age with the heartfelt strains of folk, country, and the burgeoning…
Nanci Griffith & Emmylou Harris – It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go
An Anthem for Empathy: The Enduring Plea Against Division From the moment the opening acoustic guitar chords begin, and especially when the velvet harmony of two legendary voices intertwines, you…
Nanci Griffith & The Crickets – Well… All Right
An elegiac reflection on the fleeting nature of love and the enduring power of classic rock and roll. The year 1996 brought a particularly heartfelt musical tribute into the world,…