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 […]
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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 […]
I feel events coming on
On October 5, 2009 we will publish I Feel a Song Coming On, the first biography of great American songwriter Jimmy McHugh. That week, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Triangle (NYC) and Michael […]
Barrelhouse Word: makin’ whoopee
On November 2, 2009, we will publish Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary by Stephen Calt, which has been in the works since the late 1960s. Periodically, between now and […]
The Wall Street Journal recommends “George Gershwin”
The September 5, 2009, issue of The Wall Street Journal featured a glowing review of Walter Rimler’s George Gershwin: An Intimate Portrait. “More thorough biographies than Mr. Rimler’s slender Âvolume […]
Berle Adams
Berle Adams, co-founder of Mercury Records and the subject of Chapter 2 of John Broven’s new book Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers, died […]
The New York Times reviews “Cafe Society”
The Metropolitan section of the August 16, 2009, issue of The New York Times includes a review of Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People. Mr. Josephson’s voice […]
Portraying Gershwin–Getting the Whole Story by Walter Rimler
When I started this biography of George Gershwin I already knew quite a bit about him. I’d been intrigued—that’s probably too mild a word but I’d rather not go all the […]
Cafe Society on WBGO Journal
An interview with Terry Trilling-Josephson about her new book Cafe Society: The Wrong Place for the Right People will air on WBGO Journal Friday, July 3, at 7:30 PM (eastern […]
UIP wins Lifetime Achievement Award
The University of Illinois Press was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent International Country Music Conference in Nashville for our series Music in American Life. Pats on the […]
Penny wise
I’m about halfway through Jon Hartley Fox’s forthcoming book on the King record label titled King of the Queen City. In one of the chapters on King’s country artists there’s […]