BILLIE HOLIDAY ~

 

R E A D    M E

   Knopf  2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON ~

 

THOREAU MOVED TO WALDEN POND TODAY IN 1845 ~

 

Back Road Chalkie

Henry David Thoreau

Summer 2024

AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN (BILLIE HOLIDAY) ~

 

1957

Billie Holiday singing with Ben Webster -- tenor saxophone, Lester Young -- tenor saxophone, Vic Dickenson -- trombone, Gerry Mulligan -- baritone saxophone, Coleman Hawkins -- tenor saxophone, Roy Eldridge -- trumpet, Doc Cheatham -- trumpet, Danny Barker -- guitar, Milt Hinton -- double bass, Mal Waldron -- piano and Osie Johnson - drums

CENTURY MAN ~

 

M A R S H A L L    A L L E N

photo ~ Luciano Rossetti

THE SLIM WILLA CATHER ~

 

R EA D    M E

Wafer cookie thin, but telling

HANIF ABDURRAQIB ~

 

R E A D   M E

Random House 2024

TSIMSHIAN EAGLE ~

 

R E A D   M E

   Chin Music, 2023

MERLE TRAVIS ~

 

     Bear Family

HUGH & KARL FARR ~

 

     Country Routes, 1992

RORY BLOCK ~

 

      Rounder Records

    1996

ERIC HAZAN ~

 

E R I C   H A Z A N

Paris, July 23, 1936 ~ 2024

Benoit Soualle/Opale.photo

NATURAL BOOGIE ~

 

Alligator, 1974

MARGARET GIPSY MOTH ~

 

M A R G A R E T   G I P S Y   M O T H

                                                                    Ten Speed Press, 2023

TRIPPING ON UTOPIA ~

 

R E A D   M E

MARILYN SCOTT ~

 

RAY AGEE ~

 

WRITING ~

 

W R I T I N G

SHIRLEY THOMS ~

 

DONALD SUTHERLAND ~

He recounted how he was once rejected for a film role by a producer who said: “This part calls for a guy-next-door type. You don’t look like you’ve lived next door to anyone.”

D O N A L D    S U T H E R L A N D

July 17, 1935, in Saint John, New Brunswick ~ 2024

Ron Galella Collection, via Getty Images

JIMI ~

 

JIMI  HENDRIX  COPENHAGEN  MAY  21, 1967

R E A D   M E

Chronicle, 2022

~

photo by Bent Rej

WILLIE MAYS ~

 

W I L L I E    M A Y S

Westfield, Alabama, May 6, 1931 ~ 2024

Mays making “The Catch” at the Polo Grounds in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series.Credit...

New York Daily News Archive, via Getty Images

JAMES GRAY ~

 

JUMP CHILDREN ~

 

THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS OF UNSETTLED THINGS ~

 

R E A D   M E

University of North Carolina Press

2022

CHLOE ARIDJIS ~

 

R EA D   M E

    Catapult, 2023

ROBERT GORDON / LINK WRAY ~

 

ART FROM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SOUTH ~

 

R E A D    M E

North Carolina, 2022