A Soundtrack to a Fabulous Memoir Crackling With Music
The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...
My Night With the Blues Brothers
When the broadcast was over, we all filed out of the studio in a daze, that rediscovery of “Soul Man” and the band’s merger of Chicago blues and Memphis soul following us out into the streets. It was ...