Bess Lomax Hawes, folklorist, singer, and defender of the folk arts, died last week in Portland, Oregon. We are honored to have published Hawes’s 2008 memoir, Sing It Pretty, as part […]
Category: music
New bathroom reading from UIP
No Depression tips a cap to two of our recent music titles, Jon Fox’s King of the Queen City and Stephen Calt’s Barrelhouse Words. I’m tickled to note that on […]
Jamming in the archives
In today’s Dream Job category, we have the University Library at California Santa Cruz seeking to fill the Grateful Dead Archivist position. So: perfect opportunity to sport your Jerry tie, […]
Barrelhouse Word: black cat bone
black cat bone I believe my good gal have found my black cat bone I can leave Sunday mornin’ Monday mornin’ I’m tippin’ ’round home. —Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Broke And […]
On the Banks of the Queen City by Jon Hartley Fox
As a first-time author, the whole meeting-the-readers idea is still pretty new to me. I’ve spent virtually all of my writing life working in a vacuum, very rarely having any […]
George Gershwin in The Jerusalem Post
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 […]
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 […]