
3AM
1996
Thomas drew on his mother's cancer fight, and his earlier band Tabitha's Secret put it on record first.
★ 4.7

Thomas drew on his mother's cancer fight, and his earlier band Tabitha's Secret put it on record first.

Monahan woke from a dream of his late mother, and Paul Buckmaster's strings carry the whole ache.

Van Zant and Rossington wrote it in an hour, putting his grandmother's and Rossington's mother's advice into song.

Motown's first million-seller, recut at three in the morning with Gordy at the piano chasing a poppier hit.

Three years in San Quentin behind him, Haggard gave his narrator a life sentence he never served himself.

Pizarro built it from a Joe Sample loop and the Spinners' Sadie, and the Library of Congress later archived it.