One of those albums that lived up the hype after a decade plus hiatus. Always good to learn how these kinds of people think.

To put it more plainly: As you grow older, you face the interconnected questions of which parts of yourself to preserve, which parts of yourself to evolve, and which parts of yourself to abandon .

I think these are fun questions to work over, because they’re questions without easy answers and, anyway, there’s no opting out of them. You can ignore... See more

Flash back to my nineteen-year-old self and the bicentennial summer of 1976. It was in that year of patriotic celebrations that the northern Mississippi town of Houston hosted a blues concert featuring Bukka White, a native son of the area. As it happened, my family was then living there, a long way from where I grew up in the Piney Woods south of... See more