Crosby, Stills & Nash – Wooden Ships
Oldies Songs The Haunting Ballad of Nuclear Escape: A Tense, Apocalyptic Message Delivered on the Wings of Unforgettable Counterculture Harmony For those of us who recall the turbulent, beautiful, and deeply anxious…
Ted Nugent – Fist Fightin’ Son of a Gun
A Ferocious Celebration of Unbridled, Bare-Knuckle, American Rock-and-Roll Attitude In the late seventies, when rock music was wrestling with the slickness of disco and the snarl of punk, Ted Nugent…
Ted Nugent – Hammerdown
A Testament to Relentless, Uncompromising Rock and Roll, “Hammerdown” Is the Sound of a Man Driven by Pure, Unstoppable Internal Combustion. The autumn of 1976 was a watershed moment in…
Ted Nugent – Baby Please Don’t Go
The Moment the Hard Rock God Descended from Olympus to Bear Witness to the Blues’ Primal, Unbreakable Heart If you were there in 1978, you remember the sheer, unbridled animal…
Suzi Quatro – Rock Hard
The Leather-Clad Queen’s Final Fists-Up Against the Dawn of a New Decade, Asserting That True Rock-and-Roll Power is Eternal. For those of us who lived and breathed the electric pulse…
Donald Fagen – Countermoon
The Cynical Eclipse of Romance: A Groovy, Dystopian Warning About Marital Malaise and the Call of the Wild The year 1993 felt like a sudden shift in the tectonic plates…
Jackson Browne & Bonnie Raitt – Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
A Timeless Folk Ballad, Born from Tragedy and Transformed by Love, Finds Its Dual Voice in a Union of Contemporary Soul. There are songs whose origins are so deep, so…
Slade – Raining In My Champagne
The Tragic Glamour of Fame: A Ballad That Stripped the Glitter Off the Great Slade Party For those of us who lived through the glorious, anarchic chaos of the early…
Slade – Let The Good Times Roll / Feel So Fine
A Glorious, Unapologetic Shout for Decadence and Joy that Caps the Definitive Glam Rock Statement In 1972, at the white-hot zenith of the glitter-drenched, stomp-heavy Glam Rock era, four working-class…
Steely Dan – Your Gold Teeth
The Icy Portrait of a Jaded Gambler and the Cynical Calculus of Luck and Vice in the Glamourous American Wasteland There are songs that merely entertain, and then there are…