Did you tell her she was sleeping in the bed you made for me?
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1987, Part I
Posts By: Steve Crawford
Country Music History, Essential Releases of 1986, Part II
written by David Hidalgo and Louis Perez
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1985, Part I
boozy, desperate
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1984
A buddy relationship
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1983, Part II
pretty as the angels
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1983, Part I
a duet magically appeared
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1982
a teenage boy loses his virginity
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1981, Part II
born into the music business
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1981
commanding, yet equally self-constrained
Country Music History – Essential Releases from 1980, Part 2
On a three day bender
Country Music History – Essential Releases from 1980, Part I
Morbid
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1979, Part II
Not every female country singer was wearing leather pants
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1979, Part I
fiddle-de-dee
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1978, Part 2
Viva La Mexico!
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1978, Part I
interesting stories about alcohol and firearms
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1977, Part II
I really felt highly, highly inspired
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1977, Part I
A moral dilemma
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1976, Part II
Charlie Rich gets burning mad
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1976, Part I
“Chapel Hill, the piedmont, the outlying hills…”
County Music History, Essential Releases of 1975, Part II
He spent several months living in a Tennessee cave
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1975, Part I
radically unadorned
Steve Crawford’s Top 25 Songs of 2016
Existential fatalism and undeniable triumph
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1974, Part 2
that girl could sing
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1974, Part I
a flawed masterpiece
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1973, Part II
Women in their mid-60s pump their fist to this song
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1973, Part I
Blatant sexism
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1972, Part II
“for every woman who had gotten married too early”
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1972, Part I
“Have you ever seen Dallas from a DC-9 at night?”
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1971, Part II
The song is about dope
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1971, Part I
‘Maybe that’s the direction I want to go in’
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1970, Part II
Tambourines, elephants, lawn dancing creatures,
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1970, Part I
The duo scored fourteen Top Ten hits in total
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1969, Part III
A tribute to blue collar men
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1969, Part II
Critical hosannas far outpaced retail activity
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1969, Part I
the narrator fears for his life and misses his significant other
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1968, Part II
“Touring with Townes, we were always on the brink of being shot or arrested”
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1968, Part I
a couple that spells in front of their kid
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1967, Part II
“pass the biscuits, please”
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1967
Prison, puppet heads, and a smart imitation dumb blonde
Country Music History – Essential Records of 1966, Part II
Buck always taught me that
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1966, Part I
Hank Cochran, who would marry Jeannie Seely in 1969
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1965, Part II
The only thing I can count on now is my fingers
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1965, Part I
“Trailers for Sale or Rent.”
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1964
Before she became Betty Sue Perry, she was Betty Sue Lynn – Loretta’s first daughter
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1963
Merle Kilgore wanted to license the song to the hemorrhoid relief company
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1962
pure country soul heartbreak
Country Music History – Essential Recordings of 1961, Part II
“I hung in there like a hair on a grilled cheese”
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1961, Part I
another number written with Harlan Howard
John Prine’s “For Better or Worse” Reviewed
The difference between a “good” and an “effective” singing voice
Country Music History – Essential Releases of 1960, Part II
He moved to Nashville in 1960 and started selling songs
