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, […]
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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 […]
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 […]