Country – Radio Troika

Linda Ronstadt – Feels Like Home

“Feels like Home” is a song written by Randy Newman for the musical Randy Newman’s Faust, in which Bonnie Raitt sang it. Linda Ronstadt, also involved in the musical, recorded it for Trio II in 1994, but released it for solo album Feels like Home in March 1995. Raitt’s version was released on the musical’s album soundtrack in September 1995. Raitt’s version was also used the following year in the soundtrack to the film Michael. Linda Ronstadt’s original version, with Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton, the latter of whom was mixed out of Ronstadt’s original release due to label disputes, was released in 1999.

Wiki (Feels like Home (Randy Newman song)): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feels_like_Home_(Randy_Newman_song)

Bonnie Tyler – It’s a Heartache

“It’s a Heartache” is a country rock song that was recorded separately by Bonnie Tyler and Juice Newton in 1977. Tyler’s version charted in the UK in November 1977, Newton’s charted in Mexico in 1977, and both versions charted in the United States in 1978. The song was also recorded by Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes in 1978, but it was not a hit. Authorship is credited to Ronnie Scott & Steve Wolfe, who became Tyler’s managers, songwriters, and producers when they saw her in Wales in 1976.

LeAnn Rimes – I Need You

“I Need You” is a song written by Dennis Matkosky and Ty Lacy, and performed by American country pop artist LeAnn Rimes. It was released on July 18, 2000 as a single from Jesus: Music From and Inspired by the Epic Mini-Series. It was later released in 2002 by Curb Records on Rimes’ compilation album, I Need You, and again in 2003 on her Greatest Hits. In 2004, it was released on The Best of LeAnn Rimes while the Dave Aude Radio Edit was released on the remix edition. The song also contains a tribute to the 1989 Don Bluth/United Artists film All Dogs Go to Heaven.

John Denver – Country Roads

“Take Me Home, Country Roads” (or simply “Country Roads”) is a song written by John Denver, Taffy Nivert, and Bill Danoff and initially recorded by John Denver. It was included on his 1971 breakout album Poems, Prayers and Promises; the single went to #2 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, topped only by “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart” by The Bee Gees. It became one of John Denver’s most popular and world-wide beloved songs, and is still very popular around the world, considered to be John Denver’s own signature song. It also has a prominent status as an iconic symbol of West Virginia; for example, it was played at the funeral memorial for U.S. Senator Robert Byrd in July 2010.