In April of this year Durham, NC held the first annual Art of Cool Festival. It’s a three-day event that ‘connects music and art to the people’. This was back in […]
Last month I went home to celebrate my grandfather’s 90th birthday. The conversations I had with my grandparents that weekend made me want to revisit the idea that there’s “nothing new […]
In 1959 Bobby “Blue” Bland recorded a tune penned by Brook Benton that would become a blues classic. “I’ll Take Care of You” has been recorded over a dozen times by everyone […]