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…
The Froth and the Fury
–—a slow drip that promises patience, but only brews bitterness The water fell, a drop, a beat,A rhythm slow, a dragging feat.You…
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…
Poems from the Fault Line
–—Svalbard, 78°14′N, 15°29′E You were builtnot for now,but for the afterward.For the hush after the howl,the smoke after the signing of the…
SIPS AND VERSES
–—what once burned now glows faintly; bourbon, Campari, and vermouth smoldering in the ruins. The bourbon struck like fallen beams,Campari bled in…
Opinion Piece
–In the early ’80s, I read No Exit and The Stranger back-to-back, sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor, somewhere between Atari and…
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