Performing at the height of her powers in 1970, Aretha Franklin turned Paul Simon’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” into a gospel number of extraordinary power. (image: Robert Altman/Getty Archives)
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.
Headed up by multi-talented singer-songwriter Cindy Emch, The Secret Emchy Society has quickly become a cornerstone band of a burgeoning music scene that’s putting marginalized voices at the forefront of an often marginalizing music scene.
Leyla McCalla is building her music by fusing everything from Haitian folk music to New Orleans jazz to the poetry of Langston Hughes. Read more from my interview with her here.
Dom Flemons is charting a daring path through America’s musical landscape. I interviewed him for Waxwing Literary Journal. Read all about it here.