Dreamers Rise

Michael Leddy of Orange Crate Art has asked about the words "class card" in the Arthur Crudup recording embedded in my last post ...

Anthony J. Martin, from the author's website : Burrows are a refuge from predators, a safe home for raising young, or a tool to ambu...

It's morning Nobody's up but the crows Memphis Minnie and Joe McCoy are singing "Can I Do It For You?" as if they were...

The Memphis Jug Band was a shifting collection of African-American musicians that recorded some 70 or 80 sides of music between 1927 and 193...

Any number of sources will inform you that the classic jazz composition "St. James Infirmary" is derived from an Anglo-America...

In a 2013 post I juxtaposed the self-glorifying funeral instructions left by Oscar Thibault, the patriarch in Roger Martin du Gard's ...

Lowry Hamner and Jon Sholle playing a Blind Boy Fuller tune; Mt. Kisco, NY, November 2013. Video by Frank Matheis from thecountryblues....

I picked up a copy of this book by the blues historian and poet Samuel Charters in the Strand Bookstore in the 1970s, at a time when I was l...