David Matthews Portable Bohemia

A few days ago I happened on a piece in The Guardian about a pair of landmark documentary films from 1976. One was Martin Scorcese's The...

I failed to take up Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" bungle in yesterday's post about her recent rough stretch. The omission was...

Hillary Clinton did not enjoy the best of weeks. Her performance at the NBC Candidates Forum did not inspire confidence. Yes, NBC's Matt...

Mississippi John Hurt (1893–1966) is among a number of great bluesmen who made recordings in the 1920s and '30s and afterward lived in...

The road to Bohemia ran through Bob Dylan in his mid-1960s incarnation and back to the beats, who read widely and dropped names with...

My old college pal Allen Mackey turned me on to Old Crow Medicine Show some years back when he emailed a link to the "Wagon Wheel" video....