The year’s end: Too much darkness, more than a little nostalgia as I recognize I ain’t what I used to be … and more often than not, that’s a good thing. Looking for a column topic at 2:30 a.m. has […]
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By the time Josh White began recording for Elektra in 1955, he’d reached heights that few other African-American entertainers had attained. He’d become a recording, concert and radio star, a civil rights activist and confident of FDR, and appeared in […]
Music takes us places we never expected — or even wanted — to go. It can take us to the heights of ecstasy or the depths of despair. It appeals to us and sometimes repels us, too. Our earliest memories, even pre-memories, […]
We have officially entered the smack-dab center of Summer, which can be a slow time for high profile new releases. But it’s never too late or too early to consider music that’ll move you and make you want to move. […]
Long before magic dragons puffed, while a famous nasal protestor of flyin’ cannonballs diapers were still blowin’ in the wind, Josh White was the voice of gritty folk. White was the first African-American to be invited for a command performance […]
Context can be everything. Getting what’s going on in this new compilation demands at least a bit of it. Josh White was once a near-household name of, say, B.B. King or Emmylou Harris proportions; he still was in the years […]
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