Daniel Lanois, Ebo Taylor, Ben Kweller and bluegrass standout Sierra Hull land at local venues in the month of April.

Imani Perry’s new book, Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People, begins with a memory of blue: A missing ...

Released in the early days of September 2015, Honeymoon encapsulates the highs and lows of a romance-filled summer. The 14 ...

While other festivals are falling by the wayside thanks to cost of living stresses and insurance challenges, Port Fairy continues to delight, with acts like Flynn Gurry, John Muq, Vika and Linda, and ...

The next was in 1937 by folk and blues singer and songwriter Lead Belly ... “I Put a Spell on You,” Nina Simone (1965) Originally written by “Screamin’ Jay” Hawkins and Herb Slotkin ...

But in the case of Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and ‘I Shall Be Released ... all of those descriptions match all of Simone’s best work. Similar to the power behind songs such as ‘Backlash Blues’, ‘To Be ...

Roberta Flack, who inspired generations of singers with her subtle folk/jazz/blues storytelling that ... Flack traveled the path of Carmen McRae, Nina Simone, and Aretha Franklin.

I had been listening to (blues singer) Nina Simone. I think it was ‘I Put A Spell On You.'” The track, first performed by Screaming Jay Hawkins, was taken into a brand new space by the accomplished ...

A civil-rights activist and warrior for independence, almost every song that Nina Simone sang was politically ... head/Got my brains/Got my ears,” she sings, adding mouth, smile, tongue, chin ...