
Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind
In the Village Voice’s year-end 1976 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll, Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind placed fourth. In second place was his sophomore album, Heat Treatment. Number one was Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, and in third…

Visit to Virginia, Summer 2021
For a few years now, as the Black American experience has become more a part of the national consciousness, and mine, and as the debate over Civil War monuments have taken hold, I’ve been telling my friends in Philadelphia that…