by Charles Norman | Aug 9, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Hayward Williams – Fades Away Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I’m a mix-tape, a cassette that’s been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape. — Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape All...
by Charles Norman | Aug 7, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Matthew Barton – When I Was Young It is really true what philosophy tells us, that life must be understood backwards. But with this, one forgets the second proposition, that it must be lived forwards… Life at any given moment cannot really ever be fully...
by Charles Norman | Jul 30, 2020 | Features, Music
Furry Lewis – Judge Harsh Blues The Mississippi Delta is a great wedge of alluvial floodplain — the dirt that’s laid down when a river comes out of its banks — that begins just below Memphis, reaches 90 miles across at its widest, then tips out at Vicksburg...
by Charles Norman | Jul 27, 2020 | Features, Music, Song of the Day
Elizabeth Cotten – Freight Train I don’t know when I first heard ‘Freight Train.’ I may have heard ‘Freight Train’ when the Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group performed it on the Ed Sullivan Show when I was three months old. The song was a...
by Charles Norman | Jul 21, 2020 | Music, Song of the Day
Static In Verona – Blinking Midnight I am not calling Puddy. What did I do with my gloves? Oh, I bet I left them over at Puddy’s. I should call him. I need those gloves. No, I better not. I’ll call. (looks at table) Oh, look at that! There are the gloves. I was...
