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He’s been the ultimate collaborator in New Orleans’s emerging country music scene. Now, with a brand new solo album, Sam Doores steps out on his own.

For over 40 years, Chicago organist Chris Foreman has kept the sound of the Hammond B3 organ alive in the city of its birth. And he’s still pushing, still innovating, still searching for elusive sounds.

Singers, songwriters, activists, and prosthelytizers of the concept of slowing down, the extraordinary group Rising Appalachia has created a new concept of what a touring band can mean to the communities they travel through.

Those who traffic in beauty and look for the divine leave themselves open to having the world pulled out from under them. It hardens some people. And it chews up others. And for many, it does both.

Remembering Sam Shepard through the words of Patti Smith, and thinking about the mark my friends and I will make on the world. With a link to Smith’s extraordinary farewell to her friend.

For as long as I’ve known him, my friend John has brewed beer. But lately, he’s been steadily moving out of the “guy who makes beer” category and into the category of “brewer.”

My good friend K has recently entered the blogging arena, and will be posting about her experiences from the back of a motorcycle, the view and the ride and the experience of being a passenger in the best way possible.

One of the new blogs I recommend highly can be found right here.

  A few minutes ago, I found out that one of my favorite writers, Roger Ebert, passed away at the age of 70. He’d battled cancer for the last several years, and last night posted what turned out to be…

Four years after Obama cruised to an easy win, we’re in, what the news reports say, one of the tightest elections in history. Theories abound that the election results won’t be in until Wednesday, that the count could last a…