From the very first guitar notes of Ruthie Foster’s exuberantly joyous new album, Healing Time, to the quietly meditative, almost melancholic, final strains, we’re lifted up, exalted, transformed. Foster’s capacious vocals soar into the stratosphere at one moment and descend […]
This week features a potpourri of sorts, combining upcoming releases by Amanda Shires and Lucero that I am excited about with a report and photos from Peter Dervin on Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival. Most notable among his photos are those […]
(From Part One) The world shares a voice when it comes to music, a central expression extracting the best and profoundest in us. Comprised always of sound, in its rhythms, reaches, and rampings up-and-down, music also includes silence, but not […]
