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Monthly Archives: December 2017
Wanda Jackson Helped Put the Growl in Rockabilly
Wanda Jackson, 80, is a singer-songwriter and guitarist who was one of the first female rockabilly recording artists. She is the author, with Scott B. Bomar, of the memoir “Every Night Is Saturday Night” (BMG). She spoke with Marc Myers … Continue reading
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A Snake in the Manger
By Steve Beard One of the memorable scenes in the quirky 2003 British romantic comedy Love Actually is a dialogue about a school Christmas play. Actress Emma Thompson plays Karen and her daughter Daisy (played by Lulu Popplewell) proudly announces … Continue reading
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Five reasons Sister Rosetta Tharpe should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been around long enough to honor a long list of the artists whose music fed into the genre’s roots. Now that we’ve entered an era in which the rock stars of the … Continue reading
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Better sense of history: Billy Zoom’s list of required listening
“The Ramones, Elvis Presley’s Sun sessions, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, Time Out by Dave Brubeck, something done in Owen Bradley’s studio like Patsy Cline or Brenda Lee, Johnny B. Goode by Chuck Berry … how long is this … Continue reading
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How a skull on your desk will change your life
By Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble The practice of remembering that you will die helps you to keep in mind that your life will end, and that it has a goal: heaven. Visual reminders — often called memento mori, the Latin phrase … Continue reading
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Bono’s brush with death: ‘I was clinging to my own life’
By Brian Boyd, Irish Times Bono has written about a “brush with mortality” last Christmas that inspired at least three songs on the new U2 album Songs of Experience. On the liner notes of the record, which is out today, the … Continue reading
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