Jazz collector Kenneth Hulsizer wrote that when he met Jelly Roll Morton in his role as the impresario/bouncer/bartender at D.C.’s Jungle Inn, circa 1936–1937, and asked him if he still had […]
One evening late in March 2010, my friend Joe called. He told me that his friend Chris had been on a dumpster job that day, helping clean out the house […]
On the afternoon of June 12, 1931, the two biggest acts in country music, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, magically visited each other in their respective homes of Kerrville, […]
In October I will have worked for the Alan Lomax Archive for ten years. (I remark to friends with some regularity about this being my only job as an adult, […]
I write somewhere around here that I’m disinclined to use this forum for the reviewing of records, as it seems like the internet is comprised solely of pornography and record […]
I’m sitting on a draft of about 1200 words devoted to my feelings regarding Mike Seeger, scrambled together shortly after his passing, of multiple myeloma, on August 7. But I’ll […]
Published in the April 1 edition of the Louisville Eccentric Weekly (LEO). In mid-December, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi received a memorandum from a constituent on Caselli Street in […]
I received a promotional package a month or so ago from my generous and much appreciated press contact at Smithsonian Folkways. He has long been undaunting in servicing my internet […]
Several months ago Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital invited me to write the preface to the second volume of their invaluable compilations of Art Rosenbaum’s many decades of field recordings. That […]
A compelling article by Robert Millis, one-half of the Climax Golden Twins, appeared in this month’s Perfect Sound Forever web-zine. You might know the Twins’ work through the “Victrola Favorites” […]
