Music

A brand new record label gets its start in a New Orleans living room.

Leyla McCalla is building her music by fusing everything from Haitian folk music to New Orleans jazz to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Read more from my interview with her here.

Dom Flemons is charting a daring path through America’s musical landscape. I interviewed him for Waxwing Literary Journal. Read all about it here.

A look at the town that provided my entry point for South America, from its often advertised colonial past to the richness of its musical landscape.

I’m thinking, Sinatra stood here. I’m also thinking, I can’t believe I used to work here.

My latest piece for Waxwing Literary Magazine is on Hurray for the Riff Raff’s amazing singer Alynda Lee Segarra.

An annual trip to Loudoun County, Virginia, where a Civil War era farmhouse serves as the unexpected home for annual festivals of music and dancing. Loudoun County is the kind of place where Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan might have …

Luke! Stop with the pretty!   Well my good friend Luke Winslow King has himself a brand new label for his brand new album. And if that isn’t enough, yours truly authored the liner notes. For those of you who …