AIN'T THERE A MAN IN THE HOUSE?

A few years ago a Nashville critic had this to say about Men in the House: “it's just a little childish from the woman's perspective since you're basically calling all the men in the place boys.”  Obviously, she never met…

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OLD SCHOOL AMERICAN FUNK

There is a tradition in the religions and literature of the West known as katabasis.  It’s from the Greek words for “down” and “go,” and it involves the hero of the story descending into hell.  Odysseus consults his dead…

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I JUST WANT TO RIDE IN A DELAHAYE 135

Time between the glory days and the golden years 

She did the work of twenty able men 

Sent Tommy off to school to be an engineer and 

Sarah went to try out all the sins 

She took to taking tea

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WHAT KIND OF MUSIC IS THAT?

Recently some neighborhood friends who had heard we were doing this “music thing” asked me, “What kind of music is it?”  I’m embarrassed to say I didn’t have an “elevator speech”* ready.  I fished around, but the best I could…

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