A short New Music Monday post this week, but plenty of provocation. Enjoy! Rhiannon Giddens Greensboro, NC “Freedom Highway” Giddens covers the Staple Singers’ classic and injects it with both musical and political urgency. “Freedom Highway” is the title track…
Shut off the TV. Go to shows, listen to music, do stuff. Unlike this post, life is short. That’s how I finished my wrap up at the end of last year, and, well, I tried. I don’t really watch much…
The week before I moved to South Carolina twenty odd years ago, I bought Superchunk‘s Tossing Seeds (Singles 89-91) and began what some may call a musical obsession. I have traveled a great deal of the Southeast to catch Superchunk…