A Proper Homecoming
Memphis bluesman DARREN JAY returns to the U.S. this month after being deployed to Kuwait with the U.S.…
Author: David McGee
Something Old, Something New, Lots of Blues
MARIA MULDAUR's 40th album, one of her best yet, is a tribute to a woman who was one…
Factoid: Casablanca Is 70
On November 26, 1942, Warner Bros. premiered its new Michael Curtiz-directed film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman…
Turn the Tide: Benefit Concert in NYC for Hurricane Sandy Victims
On Dec. 2 some stellar New York City working musicians are getting together for a benefit to aid…
The Royal Family of Guitar In a Festive Mood
After a half-century at the pole position of the guitar quartet, Los Romeros have finally recorded their…
At Thanksgiving, ‘Signs of the Times’
'Signs of the Times'--Paul Laurence Dunbar's dialect poem in honor of Thanksgiving, originally published in his 1897 book…
The First ‘First Thanksgiving’
THE FIRST 'FIRST THANKSGIVING'--More than half a century before the Pilgrims landed on American shores, Spanish settlers in…
‘Our Spirit Refuses to Die’: Declaring A National Day of Mourning
The story of the National Day of Mourning marked by Native Americans on the fourth Thursday of November…
‘Now Our Minds Are One’: A Native American Thanksgiving Liturgy
A meaningful call-and-response prayer from the Haudenosaunee native tradition to give some persepctive on thanks and PRovidence this…
Learning to Savor Thanksgiving:
Learning to savor Thanksgiving: Two Native Americans explain how they have embraced certain aspects of the white man's…