Patty Loveless — Blame It on Your Heart
Oldies Songs A Quiet Reckoning Where Pride Fails and Truth Finally Speaks When Patty Loveless released “Blame It on Your Heart” in late 1993, it arrived not merely as another country single,…
Ricky Van Shelton – Statue of a Fool(Live performance in Pensacola, FL, Oct. 6, 2001)
A Quiet Confession Disguised as Pride and Regret, Where Love Is Lost One Line at a Time When Ricky Van Shelton stepped onto the stage in Pensacola, Florida on October…
Anne Murray – I Just Fall in Love Again
When Love Quietly Begins Again, and Somehow Feels New Every Time Released in early 1979, “I Just Fall in Love Again” stands as one of the defining recordings of Anne…
Alan Jackson & George Jones – Good Year For The Roses
When Love Withers Indoors While the Garden Still Blooms In the long and dignified history of country music, few songs capture emotional quiet devastation as precisely as Good Year for…
Ricky Van Shelton performs “Tears Will Never Stain The Streets Of That City” in tribute to Gospel Legend Dottie Rambo
A Vision of Faith Where Sorrow Has No Address and Love Leaves No Trace of Tears When Ricky Van Shelton stepped forward to perform “Tears Will Never Stain the Streets…
Ricky Van Shelton performs “True Love Ways” live in Austin TX on 10/18/1990
A Gentle Country Voice Carrying Buddy Holly’s Promise of Devotion Across Time Few songs in the American canon speak about love with the quiet certainty and humility of “True Love…
Conway Twitty: The Final Tour and a Voice That Never Fades
A Voice That Stayed Gentle to the End, Singing of Love, Duty, and the Quiet Weight of Living Few figures in country music carried both intimacy and endurance quite like…
HANK WILLIAMS AND THE ONE WAY JOURNEY AT THE BEGINNING OF 1953
A Song That Sounded Like a Joke and Became a Farewell On January 1, 1953, the news spread quietly and then all at once. Hank Williams, only twenty nine years…
Ricky Van Shelton – “She’s Not Your Baby Anymore” (performed live on Austin City Limits, November 24, 1987).
A Quiet Line Drawn Between Love and Letting Go, Where Maturity Replaces Possession When Ricky Van Shelton stepped onto the stage of Austin City Limits on November 24, 1987, he…
Ricky Van Shelton and Jack Greene – Statue of a Fool(in 1989 from a Ralph Emory TV show)
A Song About Pride, Regret, and the Quiet Humiliation of Loving Too Much When “Statue of a Fool” resurfaced in 1989 through a shared performance by Ricky Van Shelton and…