“These beautiful and honest photographs take me back,” writes Alice Gerrard in her brief, heartfelt introduction to John Cohen’s Speed Bumps on a Dirt Road: When Old Time Music Met… Read More →
Book Reviews
Tommy Thompson: New-Timey String Band Musician by Lewis M. Stern
Sam Shepard, playwright and actor and musician, either did or did not in sit in on drums with the Red Clay Ramblers. (Historian differ, as Alan Jabbour might have said.)… Read More →
Creoles of South Louisiana: Three Centuries Strong by Elista Istre
These days, most folks have a pretty good idea of what it means when people mention the Cajun culture of Lousiana. Cajun music can be thought of as the old-time… Read More →