I saw Aretha Franklin perform live only once. In June 1997, probably as my birthday present, my Dad somehow got tickets to the opening night of the JVC Jazz Festival, which was called “Aretha’s Gospel Crusade for AIDS.” In the course of the evening, there was speeching, preaching, and performances by Joshua Nelson and BobbyRead More »

This site’s been up for over a decade now, and in that time, we’ve been posting lots of songs and snippets for your collective enjoyment. Here’s a quick roundup of where you can find all the music we’ve put online so far: from The Bridges of Madison County Another Life, Shoshana Bean (demo, 2012) StateRead More »

Theater Under The Stars, Houston TX, January 20, 2017 Jewish Community Center for Greater Columbus, Columbus OH, January 21. 2017 Hope The Old Red Hills of Home from Parade King of the World from Songs for a New World I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes It AllRead More »

There has been such a sense of loss pervading 2016, so many icons of our culture gone, so much debased and distorted in our sense of ourselves as a nation, so much that is uncertain and uncontained in the world. I am choosing, in these last days of this exhausting and often unkind year, toRead More »

Because everything else notwithstanding, this is the reason I must vote for the Democratic party. I will remember their names and I will sing them to a safer place. I’m sorry if I mispronounced anything. Twenty-Six Names Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley,Read More »