My opinionated but useful reviews, editorials, and news items have appeared in a number of publications over the past decade. You may have seen my work in Living Blues, Blues Access, Rock & Roll Disc, Hawaiian Boogie Disease, Blues Riffs, The New Memphis Star, Shake, Rattle, and Roll, The Heartland Traveler, or in my current literary home, Memphis Musician. I'm occasionally accused of being a purist music snob, a charge I deny half-heartedly. You can be your own judge by taking a glance at some of the collected columns and reviews posted here.
Memphis Musician
Memphis Musician is published bi-monthly and is distributed free throughout West Tennessee, Northeast Arkansas, and Southeast Missouri.
Phil Woods' Jazz Tutor CD-ROM, Elder Roma Wilson, Fred McDowell: October/November 1995
Unified Jazz Ensemble, International Blues Talent Competition, "It Came From Memphis," Holiday CDs: December/January 1995/1996
Gerry Mulligan, Memphis Archives, Teisco Del Ray, Unified Jazz Ensemble: February/March 1996
Muddy Waters' Cabin, Plunge, Laika and the Cosmonauts: April/May 1996
Blues Compilations, Jazz Guitar, Phil Woods, Sarah Brown: June 1996
Shake, Rattle, & Roll was a regional publication based in Memphis and distributed throughout the Mid-South. Editor CPJ Mooney III, and several members of the staff are now associated with Memphis Musician.
Corky Siegel, Ronnie Earl, Johnny Nocturne, ReBirth Brass Band, Charlie Musselwhite, Holiday Albums, The Blues Foundation: November, 1994
The Heartland Traveler is an arts and entertainment monthly covering the Missouri Bootheel, Northeast Arkansas, and Northwest Tennessee.
Blytheville, AR JazzOctober 1995
Blues Access is one of the country's premier blues publications, and is distributed internationally.
Robert Gordon's "It Came From Memphis: Book Review
The W.C. Handy Awards, produced by the Blues Foundation, are the rough equivalent of the Grammy's the Country Music Awards, or the Tonys. Each year, the foundation asks noted blues artists, writers, and historians to contribute short pieces on the current "state of the blues" or different aspects of the music and its history. I submitted an article on the growing blues community online that was published in the 1995 program.
Not yet in print - Here 'tis