The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiles Joe Evans’s new autobiography Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues in advance of the book’s launch sponsored by the Richmond Jazz […]
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We did it!!!!!!
(Read in your best Stephen Colbert voice). We did it nation! 4,000 profile views!! Woo hooooooooooo!!! […]
Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Part 5
Champaign’s Assembly Hall is a most endangered historic place, reports the Chicago Tribune. I drive past this building every day on my way home from work and have enjoyed many […]
Joe Evans profiled in Richmond’s “Style Weekly”
Joe Evans, author with Christopher Brooks of the new autobiography Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues, is profiled by Richmond’s Style Weekly. […]
Going for 4,000
A few times a day I receive “friend” requests for Roni Stoneman’s MySpace page. All are immediately approved. C’mon, help Roni get to 4,000 visitors this week and join Bill, Fat Shirleys: […]
Happy Birthday Marian McPartland
Nat Hentoff celebrates Marian McPartland’s 90th birthday in today’s Wall Street Journal, and recounts anecdotes from her University of Illinois Press book Marian McPartland’s Jazz World: All in Good Time. […]
Just Landed: An array of new books
Eight new books recently landed on my desk! –Veil and Burn Poems by Laurie Clements Lambeth (March 31, 2008) –Mexican Chicago: Race, Identity, and Nation, 1916-39 by Gabriela F. Arredondo […]
Who sealed this book? A mystery.
To keep track of web activity on current University of Illinois Press titles, I set up Google Alerts to notify me as books are mentioned online. I received an alert yesterday […]
Folk is the new folk by Michael Scully
When I first began attending the annual Folk Alliance conference in 1993 I was struck by the palpable sense of closeness among the few hundred attendees. Self-conscious about my […]
Just Landed: “Radical Sisters,” “California Polyphony,” “Follow Your Heart,” and “The Never-Ending Revival”
Four new books recently landed on my desk: Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. by Anne M. Valk (March 31, 2008) California Polyphony: Ethnic Voices, Musical […]
Depression
Back in my ’80s record store clerk days I worked with someone who used to engineer recording sessions in the attic of his rented apartment. One of the bands that he recorded […]
The Nashville Scene reviews “Air Castle of the South”
One of Craig Havighurst’s hometown weeklies, the Nashville Scene, reviews his new book Air Castle of the South: WSM and the Making of Music City. “Air Castle of the South pulls […]