The Number Ones: Plain White T's' 'Hey There Delilah'
In , I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way...
In , I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The sensitive white guy with the acoustic guitar will never, ever die. Sensitive white guys have been picking up acoustic guitars for decades and decades. The archetype has been around, at the very least, since the '50s folk revival, though god knows it might've already been a cliché by then. In the '60s and '70s, sensitive white guys with acoustic guitars became pop titans: Donovan, Paul Simon, James Taylor.