Last week, The Jerusalem Post newspaper featured a review of Walter Rimler’s George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “Rimler shines in weaving together anecdotes, correspondence and a wealth of interviews with […]
Category: music
Coming to New York by Alyn Shipton
Coming to New York to launch I Feel a Song Coming On, my new biography of songwriter Jimmy McHugh, was certainly quite a contrast to the way any of my […]
Barrelhouse Word: bird liver
bird liver I wanna give you folks a warnin’, I mean this mornin’, An’ I want you all to strictly understand: Now you can call me what you choose, but […]
Alyn Shipton/Jimmy McHugh event at B&N New York
On October 9, 2009, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle hosted an event for Alyn Shipton’s new book I Feel a Song Coming On: The Life of Jimmy McHugh, the first biography […]
John Broven at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame
John Broven, author of the recent book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers, will participate in a From Songwriters to Soundmen: The People Behind […]
King Records on Fresh Air
Today’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross will feature a segment on the new book King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records. Interviewees include author Jon Hartley Fox, […]
Barrelhouse Word: break one’s neck
break one’s neck Way down South you oughta see the women Shimmy and shake Got a new way a-wiggle, make a weak man break his neck. —Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Southern […]
Barrelhouse Word: jellybean
jellybean Down on Franklin Avenue, jellybeans standin’ to an’ fro Well you hear one jellybean ask the other one: “Which a-way did my good girl go?” —”Hi” Henry Brown, “Nut […]
“Working Girl Blues” wins certificate of merit
Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named winner of a Certificate of Merit for the 2009 Association for […]
Report from IBMA
The Bluegrass Blog has a report from the International Bluegrass Music Association meeting that includes a quote from our own Laurie Matheson. Vendors’ impressions of hall traffic varied. Bob Fehr […]
Barrelhouse Word: in one’s whiskey
in one’s whiskey When I’m in my whiskey, I don’t care what I say ‘Cause me and my whiskey, we going to have our way. —Barbecue Bob, “Me And My […]
Barrelhouse Word: butter and egg man
butter and egg man Why don’t you take me pretty mama, make something out of poor me? I’m just a butter and egg man, just as soft as I can […]