Sir Paul was just passing through Springfield, Illinois, over the weekend? […]
Category: music
Just Landed: New books on soy, cinema studies, and women journalists
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past week: –Blues Empress in Black Chattanooga: Bessie Smith and the Emerging Urban South by Michelle R. Scott (August 25, […]
Pickin’ the banjer
Roni Stoneman, co-author of the recent memoir Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story, performed with Mona Jo Griffin at the Andy Griffith Playhouse. Someone in the audience filmed the event and uploaded footage to Youtube. […]
The Washington Post previews Roni Stoneman
The July 24 Fairfax edition of the Washington Post features a preview of Roni Stoneman’s upcoming weekend concert, background on this legendary performer, and a nod to her recent University of […]
The Wire lauds “John Cage”
UK’s The Wire magazine, modern music’s arbiter of good taste, recently reviewed John Cage, David Nicholl’s “very fine book” in our American Composers series. “To the casual cultural onlooker, John Cage is […]
Just Landed: Summer books
A handful of new books landed on my desk in the past two weeks: –William Grant Still by Catherine Parsons Smith (July 21, 2008) –About Bach edited by Gregory G. Butler, […]
Background music, my top 25
Some time ago, Entertainment Weekly featured a column by author Stephen King about his 25 favorite songs. After he made his list, King checked his iTunes playlist counter and found that what he […]
Popmatters reviews “Follow Your Heart”
Joe Evans and Christopher Brooks’s Follow Your Heart received an 8 out of 10 from Popmatters. “The life of Joe Evans is intriguingly scattershot and full of cameos from celebrities […]
Hazel Dickens to appear on “Jubilee”
A Hazel Dickens performance filmed in Owensboro, Kentucky, during the summer of 2007 for Jubilee will air on KET June 18, 2008. Hazel’s new book book with Bill Malone, Working Girl Blues: […]
Bess Lomax Hawes’s “MTA Song”
Peter Dreier blogged yesterday about the new issue of Dissent magazine that includes his piece on the origins of MTA Song. Bess Lomax Hawes, author of the new memoir Sing It Pretty, […]
“Follow Your Heart” reviewed in the Washington Times
William F. Gavin reviews the Joe Evans autobiography Follow Your Heart for the The Washington Times. “For every Armstrong or Ellington or Charlie Parker, there were countless musicians, their names […]
“Working Girl Blues” reviewed in Nashville’s City Paper
Ron Wynn gives Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens a quick read in the City Paper. “Working Girl Blues puts the spotlight on a magnificent performer whose […]