If you are a “first-wave” Boomer--a “Zoomer”--than you may remember the early 60s folk music craze, and the New Christy Minstrels’ 1964 hit “Today,” a clear, pure, gentle appeal that touched the hearts of listeners: Today, while the blossom still clings to the...

  Often we think of male Country singers as hard core, like Chris Stapleton, or “bro-country,” or cowboys, meaning we don’t usually think of this format as having men with a softer side, but here’s Country wunderkind Thomas Rhett with “Star of the Show”-- a...

  Even now, 40-years later, listening to Bob Seger’s “Fire Down Below,” I experience it the same as when I heard it in 1976: that it was in a class of its own; the in your face vocals and the band’s down-home, gritty delivery still knock my socks off. One feels a...

  Sometimes love affairs last a lifetime and sometimes they don’t. In 1979 Robert John sang a tender “Sad Eyes” about the end of an affair.  A slow, gentle ballad that conveyed the sorrow she felt when he ended the relationship. “Blue Ain’t Your Color,” Keith...

  "A Song For Another Time," the newest release by “Old Dominion,” a slick, corporate sounding Country band, follows a long history of “songs that make reference to other songs,” like 1974’s "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)." “A Song For Another Time” is...