It must be obvious by now that Spain’s imperial ambitions were arrested too soon for her to build, as the French did, in New Orleans, a...
It’s hard to think about the history of labor unions in this country without thinking of the music that gave it its soundtrack. The American labor...
It was 1978, and I was in my dorm studying for my class on mediæval feminist literature. It was past midnight, a time when the local...
My favorite sentences in my favorite jazz book ever come from Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker. The lines arrive near the...
Playing instrumental music that straddles multiple genres by design, the John Stickley Trio from North Carolina has toured heavily and released five CDs and an EP...
What is essential in an artist’s work, whose legacy reaches back a half century? Unless the artist in question has an unusually consistent body of work,...
“I’m so blessed,” Steve Wilcox says. “I’ve been blessed throughout my life as far as music goes.” You’d be hard pressed to argue the point. Widely...
Like every other folk singer, I’ve played some weird shows. Stuck in the corner of a restaurant’s empty back patio, playing for no one, while the...
