R & B great Johnnie Taylor recorded on the classic Stax/Volt label. Born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas, in 1938,...
Johnnie Taylor Live at the Summit Club
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Dispatches
Florida Frenzy by Harry Crews
Florida Frenzy culls 13 essays and articles along with 3 short stories into one of the finest collections written by...
Don Nix: Road Stories And Recipes
"After Chicago we played Miami again, and some one-nighters in northern Florida and Georgia, with a two-night stand at...
Neil Young’s Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars
“The Queen rolled through my life as I recorded albums and played tours. She was there with me when we opened the Roxy in LA with our premiere performance of Tonight’s the Night. She took me between the ranch and my home in Malibu as I flew back and forth on my beloved Pacific Coast Highway, avoiding constricted and impersonal air travel. The Black Queen, one of my all-time favorites, will always be with me, after being such an integral pasrt of my life and writing in the 1970s.”
The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album
“I don’t play nothing but stone blues.”
Tina McElroy Ansa: Ugly Ways
Macon, Georgia, native Tina McElroy Ansa published her second novel, Ugly Ways, in 1993. Ansa ranks as an influential...
No Country For Old Men: A Coen Brothers Film
By James Calemine This 2007 Coen Brothers film was adapted from the Pulitzer-Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s...
Ann Peebles: Straight From the Heart
Released in 1971, Straight From The Heart counts as Ann Peebles' third album. Produced by Hi Records legend...
More Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country
The genius of More Dirty Laundry: the Soul of Black Country resides in defying musical prejudices.
Shirley Brown: Woman To Woman
By James Calemine Born during 1947, in West Memphis, Arkansas, Shirley Brown’s first single–“Woman to Woman”–sold a...
Janisse Ray’s Drifting into Darien: A Personal And Natural History of the Altamaha River
“I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp...
Albert King: I’ll Play The Blues For You
By James Calemine Albert King never tolerated nonsense. His guitar-playing captured the essence of his personality. He...