Author: Jeff Cochran
Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed Dignity never been photographed Or so Bob Dylan says in “Dignity,” a song he wrote in 1988 after learning of the death of basketball great Pete ...
At supper my dad told of a conversation he had with a client in Pennsylvania earlier in the day. It was April 9, 1968, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was laid to rest. ...
Editor’s note: Phil Niekro passed away over the weekend. In his honor, we are re-running a column originally published on Atlantaloop.com. On The Good Foot … Phil Niekro was feeling good. It was Sunday, July ...
The song “Stand By Me” is a declaration. It offers assurance. The intended recipient of the song’s message could be a friend or perhaps a lover. That distinction matters little. What really matters is ...
(Author’s Note: The T.A.M.I. Show airs at 8 p.m. Friday evening on Turner Classic Movies) Seismic Event …. 74 million Americans may have felt the earth shifting on Sunday evening, February 9, 1964. The 74 million, 34% ...
Tuesday, August 16, 1977. It was a scheduled day off, but there I was anyway, at Peaches Records and Tapes in Atlanta, perusing a shipment of Oldie 45s delivered the evening before. I was ...
Stepping Outside She Is Free … The girl just wanted to have fun. Doing whatever her parents said didn’t cut it anymore. She loves the folks but it’s time to go. To leave home. ...
Late in 1932, in the midst of the Great Depression, two dates stand out. On November 8, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President of the United States. Less than a month later, on December ...
On The Human Highway . . . David Crosby handed Neil Young the May 15, 1970 issue of Life magazine. It featured photos of the tragedy at Kent State University. May 4, 1970. Four ...
John Prine wrote several songs focusing on the American experience in Vietnam. In those songs, Prine conveyed the sense of betrayal to our country’s ideas and the far worse betrayal inflicted on the 58,200 ...