‘A Wonderfully Grand Way to Hear the Familiar Carols’
For choral music lovers, two beautiful Christmas albums from British sources: CHRISTMAS FROM WORCESTER BY THE WORCESTER CATHEDRAL…
The Man With All the Toys
Updated for Yuletide 2020, BRIAN SETZER's 2015 holiday gem, ROCKIN' RUDOLPH, shows off the master showman and ace…
A Bluer Shade of Christmas
An update of our 2019 review of four essential Christmas blues anthologies: Volumes 1-3 of BLUES, BLUES CHRISTMAS…
Half-Lights and Misty Streetscapes
'HALF LIGHTS and MISTY STREETSCAPES': ROBERT HUGILL reviews two introspective, atmospheric, haunting gems: pianist-composer MELISSA PARMENTER's MESSAPICA and…
Really the Blues: A Roundup
A blues roundup featuring new CDs from British blues-rock veterans SAVOY BROWN, a great one from the late…
Shirley Chisholm: ‘Always a Doer’
In SHIRLEY CHISHOLM IS A VERB! author VERONICA CHAMBERS and illustrator RACHELLE BAKER remember the first black woman…
Kathleen Edwards Returns, Triumphantly and With Animals
KATHLEEN EDWARDS returns from a lengthy, self-imposed sabbatical to reclaim the high singer-songwriter ground she conquered in 2003.…
The Silence Lifts
ALICIA NUGENT, one of the finest voices of her generation, makes a triumphant return on KEITH STEGALL-produced THE…
In Conversation: Larissa FastHorse, MacArthur Grant Fellow
In NATIVE AMERICA NEWS, an interview with playwright LARISSA FASTHORSE of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, who has been…
Always The Winning Hand
Ever-prolific AL BASILE returns with arguably his strongest effort yet, LAST HAND, a musical radio play concerning a…