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
––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…
–“The Cryptid Who Just Wants a Goddamn Minute” Or: The Reluctant Icon of American Wilderness, and Maybe the Last Thing We Can’t…
–“The Phantom of the Pines”An Account Reconstructed from Splinters and Bad Dreams If you’re deep in the woods and something tries to…
–“The Boozehound of the Sonoran Sands”A True Account by Nobody Who Made It Home Sober They say there’s a cat out in…
–“The Devil Came Not by Land, But by Air”Or: How a German Forest Phantom Became an American Flying Machine of Pure Hysteria…
–“The Pines Remember Everything”Or: How a Colonial Curse Grew Wings, Screamed, and Never Stopped Screaming If the American northeast has a soul,…
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