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Songs That Stayed
–Tom T. Hall’s Quiet Anthem for a Country Losing Its Noise A Simple Song for a Complicated Nation Some songs announce themselves…
Songs That Stayed
–John Denver’s 1972 classic “Rocky Mountain High” is more than a song. It stands as a topographical elegy to wonder. Part environmental…
Songs That Stayed
–Tom T. Hall’s 1973 hit “I Love” is a two-minute sermon on the gospel of the ordinary. With no chorus, no bridge,…
Songs That Stayed
–There’s a moment in Eddie Rabbitt’s 1978 hit where the whole paradox of American freedom crystallizes into five words. Every which way…
Songs That Stayed
–—”Love will abide, take things in stride / Sounds like good advice, but there’s no one at my side.” — Linda Ronstadt,…
Songs That Stayed
––Merle Haggard’s Warning in the Age of Uncertainty In 1981, Merle Haggard looked out across the American landscape, not through rose-colored glasses…
Songs That Stayed
–-how a 1976 outlaw anthem still resonates in an age of blurred boundaries Step into the bar David Allan Coe imagined nearly…
Songs That Stayed
–In 1977, Waylon Jennings released a song that has only become more resonant with time. “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of…
Songs That Stayed
–“I Love You”: The Soft Rock Confession That Slipped Through the Cracks of Cool There was a moment, subtle and easily overlooked,…
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