James Taylor – Country Road
Oldies Songs The Sweet Escape from Turmoil: A Restless Soul’s Journey Down the Road to Solace and Freedom. To understand James Taylor’s “Country Road” is to understand the soul of the 1970s…
Steely Dan – Everything You Did
The Cynical Weaponization of Sentimentality: A Drama of Betrayal, Obsession, and a Subtle, Brilliant Jab at Rock’s Biggest Hitmakers. The world of 1976 was a high-gloss, cynical landscape, perfectly captured…
James Taylor & Carole King – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Most Poignant Question in Pop History, Reborn in the Quiet Majesty of Enduring Friendship. The 2007 reunion of James Taylor and Carole King at the storied Troubadour club in…
Barry Blue – Hot Shot
The Final Glitter of Glam: A Thrilling, Feverish Chronicle of a Dancefloor Heartbreaker’s Last Hurrah on the Charts. The year was 1974. The decade of flared trousers, platform boots, and…
Crosby, Stills & Nash – You Don’t Have to Cry
The Moment of Pure Harmony: An Accidental Song That Forged the Sound of a Generation’s Yearning. There are songs that define a moment, and then there are those that create…
Middle Of The Road – Honey No
The Dramatic Clash Between Personal Freedom and the Chains of Expectation. There are certain sounds that instantly transport us back to the dizzying, often melodramatic currents of the early 1970s,…
Ted Nugent – Smokescreen
The Searing Guitarist’s Warning Shot: A Gritty, Unflinching Look at the Lies We Tell in the Games of Love and Ego. There are certain years etched in the collective memory…
Slade – I’m A Rocker
The Raw, Defiant Roar of a Band That Refused to Fade, Celebrating the Indestructible Spirit of Rock and Roll Itself. The late 1970s: for those who loved the unbridled, glammed-up,…
Jackson Browne & David Lindley – Mercury Blues
The Joyful Rattle of a Dream Machine: A Gritty, Celebratory Ode to the Great American Car. For those of us who came of age with the golden, sun-drenched anthems of…
Steely Dan – Jack Of Speed
The Dark, Hypnotic Chronicle of a High-Roller’s Reckoning, Driven by a Groove That Defied Two Decades of Silence. The year is 2000. For two decades, the most sophisticated, cynical, and…