From Any Angle, It’s Still the Blues
BLUESMAN and former boxer GRADY CHAMPION is launching his new label with strong albums from his first signings:…
Rhonda’s Revenge
Though she says it was inspired by George Jones, Rhonda Vincent's ONLY ME, a double-CD release containing one…
An On-Time Messenger for the Lord
It takes no special insight to point out the kinship of blues and gospel but 81-year-old LEO 'BUD'…
Dame Kiri Turns 70, Bids Farewell to Opera (But That’s Not All, Folks)
Celebrating her 70th birthday today, DAME KIRI TE KANAWA is appearing at Covent Garden in a Donizetti farce--her…
No Down Payment (1957)
In 1957 director MARTIN RITT shattered the facade of bucolic suburban life in post-war America in his lost…
Video Moment of the Week
Traditional bluegrass quartet NU-BLU is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, with a new album (Ten) and three…
Contemporary Music
During a four-month concert tour of America in 1928, composer MAURICE RAVEL delivered a then-controversial lecture urging American…
It’s a Giraffe! It’s a Horse! It’s a Zebra! <br />No, It’s an Okapi, the Odd Duck of the Congo
A giraffe head plopped on a dark brown horse body with the rump and legs of a zebra--not…
‘I’d Rather Go Blind’
Live at the Lincoln Inn in Jersey City, NJ, Christine Santelli performs 'I'd Rather Go Blind
‘There Is a Great Desire in All Souls for What Is Good and Beautiful’
The BENEDICTINES OF MARY, QUEEN OF APOSTLES are back with another moving seasonal epistle to follow last year's…