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Reviews by Michael include:
Music:
Greg Adkins
• Chase the Western Sky
Antonio Adolfo
• Rio, Choro, Jazz...
Sola Akingbola
• Nigerian Beats
Pete Alderton
• Living on Love
Jim Allchin
• Decisions
Luther Allison
• Underground
Altered Five Blues Band
• Cryin' Mercy
American String Conspiracy
• Help the Poor
The Reverend Shawn Amos
• Loves You
Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem
• Big Old Life
Elana Arian
• How to Stand in the Rain
Caren Armstrong
• Everything
Mac Arnold & Plate Full o' Blues
• Backbone & Gristle
J. Asling
• Roots & Friends: The Stockholm Sessions
Butch Baldassari & John Mock
• Music of O'Carolan: Ireland's Bard
Eric Balkey
• My Sacred Heart
Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminal's Starvation League
• The Longest Meow
Beat Funktion
• Mandy's Secret
• Olympus
Joe Beck, Santi Debriano & Thierry Arpino
• Tri07
Carey & Lurrie Bell
• Gettin' Up Live
Lurrie Bell
• Let's Talk About Love
Louie Bellson & Clark Terry
• Louie & Clark Expedition 2
The Jeff Benedict Big Big Band
• Holmes
Arlon Bennett
• Summer's Voice
Tab Benoit, with Louisiana's LeRoux
• Power of the Pontchartrain
Magnus Berg
• Cut Me Loose
Birch Creek Band
• Celtic Enchantment
Elvin Bishop
• Booty Bumping
Michael Black
• Michael Black
Blind Boys of Alabama
• Take the High Road
The Blind Boys of Alabama & Taj Mahal
• Talkin' Christmas
The Julian Bliss Septet
• A Tribute to Benny Goodman
Rory Block
• Shake 'Em On Down
Deanna Bogart
• Just a Wish Away
• Pianoland
Georgie Bonds
• Hit It Hard
• Stepping into Time
Natasha Borzilova
• Cheap Escape
The Boxcars
• It's Just a Road
Josh Boyd & the V.I.P Band
• Josh Boyd & the V.I.P Band
Luke Brindley
• Invitation to Joy
Chuck Brodsky
• Tulips for Lunch
Ronnie Baker Brooks
• The Torch
Cowboy Roy Brown
• Street Singer
Jim Ed Brown
• In Style Again
Nappy Brown
• Long Time Coming
Michael Jerome Browne
• Double
Craig Buhler
• Capistrano Sessions
Mimi Burns Band
• I Know You're Out There
Cedric Burnside & Lightnin' Malcolm
• 2 Man Wrecking Crew
Holly Burton
• First Person Singular
• Little Seattlight
Butcher's Blind
• Destination Blues
Jamie Byrd
• Garden of Days
Jonathan Byrd
• This is the New That
The Byrds
• The Complete Columbia Album Collection
Chris Cain
• So Many Miles
Andrew Calhoun
• Rhymer's Tower: Ballads of the Anglo-Scottish Border
Linda Calise
• La Vie/My Life
Michael Camilo
• Spirit of the Moment
Masha Campagne
• Like Water, Like Air
Liz Carlisle
• Big Dreams
The Cash Box Kings
• Black Toppin'
• Holler & Stomp
Eva Cassidy
• Nightbird
Albert Castiglia
• These are the Days
The Chambers Brothers
• People Get Ready
• Now
• Shout
• Feelin' the Blues
Grady Champion
• Bootleg Whiskey
• One of a Kind
Popa Chubby
• Deliveries After Dark
• Electric Chubbyland, Vols. 1-2
• The Essential Popa Chubby
• The Fight is On
The City Boys Allstars
• Blinded by the Light
• Personal Thing
Clannad
• Nadur
Patrick Clifford
• American Wake
Commander Cody
• Dopers, Drunks & Everyday Losers
Davis Coen
• These Things Shall Pass
Lui Collins
• Closer
Contino
• Back Porch Dogma
Peter Cooper
• Mission Door
The Coronas
• Trust the Wire
Paul Creane & the Changing Band
• The Clock
• Tommy Black & the Twelve Days of Lucy
Albert Cummings
• Feel So Good: Live
• Someone Like You
Anthony da Costa
• Typical American Tragedy
Dafni
• Sweet Time
Dala
• Girls of the North Country
Barbara Dane
• Anthology of American Folk Songs
Debbie Davies
• Blues Blast
Gareth Davies-Jones
• Chasing Light
Mary Bridget Davies
• Wanna Feel Somethin'
Dead Men's Hollow
• Angels' Share
• Death Must be a Woman
Delta Rae
• After It All
Tom Dempsey/Tim Ferguson Quartet
• Beautiful Friendship
Krista Detor
• Cover Their Eyes
• Flat Earth Diary
• The Silver Wood: Wintersongs
The Halley Devestern Band
• Keep on Playin'
Mike Dougherty
• Southern Comfort
Liz Downing, Mark Jickling & Rebby Sharp
• The Book of Amy
Yolanda Duke
• Te Llevo Bajo La Piel
Little Arthur Duncan
• Live at Rosa's Blues Lounge
Boyd Lee Dunlop
• The Lake Reflections
John Dyer
• GoStayPlay
Wendy Ealey
• Out of the Shower
Ronnie Earl
• Spread the Love
W.C. Edgar
• Alcohol of Fame
• Old School Survivor
Honeyboy Edwards
• Roamin' & Ramblin'
Sena Ehrhardt
• All In
• Leave the Light On
• Live My Life
Mallem Abdenbi El Gadari
• Gnawa Bambara
Jen Elliott & Bluestruck
• 8 Days Down
Sleepy John Estes
• On 80 Highway
• On the Chicago Blues Scene
Falkner Evans Trio
• Climbing the Gates
Fado em Si Bemol
• QB (Quanto Baste)
Fayssoux
• Early
Fiddleworms
• See the Light
Fire in the Glen
• Rattling o'er the Bogs
Fitzgerald & Beach
• Pilot Me
Kelly Flint
• Drive All Night
Folklaw
• The Tales That They Tell
Damon Fowler
• Sugar Shack
Fox & Branch
• Hot Time
Jeremy Fox
• With Love
Janie Fricke
• Country Side of Bluegrass
Roy Gaines & his Orchestra
• Tuxedo Blues
Galley Beggar
• Galley Beggar
Abbie Gardner
• Hope
Vicki Genfan
• Up Close & Personal
Annette Genovese
• Dream with Me
Bob Gibson
• The Bob Gibson Legacy Edition
• The Living Legend Years
Janine Gilbert-Carter
• A Song for You
Vance Gilbert
• Angels, Castles, Covers
Jon Gindick
• When We Die, We All Come Back as Music
Mark Wayne Glasmire
• MWG
The Goat Roper Rodeo Band
• Hail the Remedy
Go Jane Go
• Go Jane Go
Eve Goldberg
• A Kinder Season
Golden Bough
• Pirate Gold
Goodnight Moonshine
• Goodnight Moonshine
James Gordon
• Coyote Calling
Nancy Goudinaki
• I Wanna Be Your Star
The Grascals
• Dance Til Your Stockings are Hot & Ravelin'
Grasstowne
• Kicking Up Dust
The Green Fields of America
• The Green Fields of America
Paul Green
• Music Coming Together
Grace Griffith
• Passing Through
Hayley Griffiths
• Celtic Rose
Sarah Lee Guthrie & Family
• Go Waggaloo
Buddy Guy
• Born to Play Guitar
Andreas Hagiioannu
• Far & Wide
Risa Hall
• Second Chance
Tianna Hall & Chris Cortez
• Noel
Spook Handy
• Whatcha Gonna Do
Hard Swimmin' Fish
• True Believer
Harper
• Day by Day
• Stand Together
Chris Harper & the Sharade Band
• Blues is My Life
Corey Harris
• Zion Crossroads
Rebecca Harrold
• The River of Life
Jens Hausmann
• Precious Moments
Debbie Hennessey
• Good as Gone
Carolyn Hester
• The Tradition Years
• We Dream Forever
Susan Hickman
• Susan Hickman
The Pamela Hines Trio
• Drop2
Dave Hole
• Rough Diamond
James Hollingsworth
• Coming Home to Stay
John Lee Hooker Jr.
• Live in Istanbul, Turkey
Ellis Hooks
• Another Saturday Morning
Steve Howell & the Mighty Men
• Friend Like Me
• Yes, I Believe I Will
Steve Howell & Jason Weinheimer
• A Hundred Years from Today
Barbara J. Hunt
• Play My Heart
The Illegitimate Sons
• American Music
The Insomniacs
• At Least I'm Not With You
Iron Bridge Band
• Against the Grain
Eileen Ivers
• Beyond the Bog Road
Jacanda
• Skimming Stones
Li'l Son Jackson
• Vol. 1: Rockin' & Rollin'
Chris James & Patrick Rynn
• Barrelhouse Stomp
Hilary James
• You Don't Know
Jemima James
• Book Me Back in Your Dreams
Jeordie
• Jeordie & the Mixology Project
• Pixiebeast
Joe Jewell Quartet
• Every Note Counts
Carolyn Lee Jones
• The Performer
JW Jones
• Belmont Boulevard
Stacy Jones
• Love is Everywhere
John Jorgenson
• Istiqbal Gathering
• One Stolen Night
• Ultraspontane
Kalo
• Dear John
Candye Kane
• Sister Vagabond
• Superhero
Kevin Kane
• American Songs
Kieran Kane
• Somewhere Beyond the Roses
Kieran Kane, Kevin Welch & Fats Kaplin
• Lost John Dean
Peter Karp
• Shadows & Cracks
Peter Karp & Sue Foley
• He Said, She Said
Mitch Kashmar
• Live at Labatt
Kathy & the Kilowatts
• Let's Do This Thing
Wouter Kellerman
• Mzansi
Grady Kelneck
• Take My Hand
Mary Ann Kennedy
• An Dan: Gaelic Songs for a Modern World
Megan King
• Pretty Songs
Kings & Associates
• Tales of a Rich Girl
Kingston Trio
• The Final Concert
• The Lost 1967 Album
Kingwhistler
• Grass Routes
Jennifer Knapp
• Love Comes Back Around
• Set Me Free
Jim Koeppel
• RSVP to Paradise
The Dave Lalama Big Band
• The Hofstra Project
Nancy Lane
• Let Me Love You
Piers Lawrence Quartet
• Stolen Moments
Lea
• Great Big World
Leadbelly
• The Legend of Leadbelly
Albert Lee
• Road Runner
Gaetano Letizia
• Resurrection
Rebecca Loebe
• Blink
Bobby Long
• Ode to Thinking
Mike Longo Trio +2
• To My Surprise
Hamilton Loomis
• Ain't Just Temporary
Los Fabulocos featuring Kid Ramos
• Los Fabulocos
Louisiana Red
• When My Mama Was Living
Karen Lovely
• Fish Outta Water
Lauren Lucas
• If I was Your Girl
Lucy Angel
• Lucy Angel
Kate MacLeod
• Deep in the Sound of Terra
Jeff Mamett
• Here's Your Hat
Manhattan Brass
• Manhattan Holiday
Al Maniscalco Quartet
• One Blessed Day
Hank Marvin
• Django's Castle
John-Alex Mason
• Town & Country
Eagle McCall
• Song of the Seas
The McClymonts
• Wrapped Up Good
Barrelhouse Buck McFarland
• Alton Blues
Ian McFeron
• Love Me Blue
Tia McGraff
• Day in My Shoes
Andrew McKnight
• Something Worth Standing For
Sarah McQuaid
• The Plum Tree & the Rose
Melanie
• Ever Since You Never Heard of Me
Melodic Intersect
• Looking Forward
The Merry Wives of Windsor
• Tales from Windsor's Tavern
Solitaire Miles
• Susie Blue & The Lonesome Fellas
Lisa Dawn Miller
• Fly Away
Misner & Smith
• Seven Hour Storm
Coco Montoya
• The Essential Coco Montoya
Shelley Morningsong
• Out of the Ashes
Van Morrison
• Under Review 1964-1974
The Mugwumps
• The Mugwumps
Megan Munroe
• One More Broken String
Michael Martin Murphey
• Tall Grass & Cool Water
The Dave Muskett Acoustic Blues Band
• Live at the Slippery Noodle Inn
Kenny Neal
• Let Life Flow
The Near Myths
• Words to Burn
John Nemeth
• Love Me Tonight
• Name the Day
The Nighthawks
• Last Train to Bluesville
John Jacob Niles
• An Evening with John Jacob Niles
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• Circlin' Back: Celebrating Fifty Years
• Speed of Life
Eddie Gip Noble
• In the Lite of Things
Wayne Noyce & the Combine Pilots
• It's All Good
The Outlaws
• Legacy Live
Mick Overman & the Maniacs
• Good Thing Happen
Jimmy Owens
• The Monk Project
Michael Packer
• I Am the Blues: My Story - Vol. 3
Diana Panton
• I Believe in Little Things
• Red
Guy Penrod
• Breathe Deep
Lydia Pense & Cold Blood
• Transfusion
Pinetop Perkins
• Heaven
Rain Perry
• Men
Al Petteway & Amy White
• Acoustic Journey
Rod Piazza & the Mighty Flyers
• Emergency Situation
Leigh Pilzer
• Strunkin'
Ana Popovic
• Blind for Love
Jim Post
• Reach Out Together
Luke Powers
• Picture Book
Anne Price
• Very Early Anne
The Prodigals
• Momentum
Joe Pug
• The Great Despiser
Kristi Rae
• Things We Had to Let Go
Johnny Rawls
• Memphis Still Got Soul
Reckless Kelly
• Was Here
Red Molly
• The Red Album
Redmond, Langosch & Cooley
• Compared to What
Piano Red
• The Lost Atlanta Tapes
Sarah Goslee Reed
• It's About Time
Patty Reese
• Let in the Sun
Resonance
• Introductions
Jason Ricci & New Blood
• Done With the Devil
Riff Riders
• Hit the Road
Robin Rogers
• Back in the Fire
• Treat Me Right
The Roys
• Lonesome Whistle
Bobby Rush
• Raw
Deb Ryder
• Grit Grease & Tears
Buffy Sainte-Marie
• Running for the Drum
Craig Schumacher
• New Shoes
Will Scott
• Gnawbone
Son Seals
• A Journey Through the Blues: The Son Seals Story
John Sebastian
• John B. Sebastian
Peggy Seeger
• Bring Me Home
Pete Seeger
• The Storm King
Talia Segal
• Nonprophet
Vince Seneri
• The Prince's Groove
Jon Shain
• Army Jacket Winter
Daryl Shawn
• In Place
Archie Shepp & the Attica Blues Orchestra
• I Hear the Sound
Ben Sidran
• Nick's Bump
Ian Siegal
• The Picnic Sessions
Ian Siegal & the Youngest Sons
• The Skinny
Sarah Silverman
• Sarah
Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown
• The Devil to Pay
Woody Simmons
• Double Geared Lightning
Ricky Skaggs
• A Skaggs Family Christmas, Vol. 2
Magic Slim
• The Essential Magic Slim
• Midnight Blues
• Raising the Bar
Magic Slim & the Teardrops
• Bad Boy
Debi Smith
• The Soprano
Charlie Sohmer
• Dying to Have a Good Time
Lenny Solomon
• Under My Hat
Sons of the Never Wrong
• King Fisher King
Southern Hospitality
• Easy Living
The Steeldrivers
• Hammer Down
• Reckless
Suzi Stern
• Romancing the Dark
Striking Matches
• Nothing but the Silence
Jim Suhler
• Panther Burn
Saffron Summerfield
• The Stonemason's Dream
Swamp Cabbage
• Squeal
Swingadelic
• Toussantville
Maurice Tani
• Blue Line, with 77 el Deora
• Two Stroke, with Mike Anderson
Cassie Taylor
• Blue
Melvin Taylor
• Beyond the Burning Guitar
10,000 Maniacs
• Twice Told Tales
JJ Thames
• Raw Sugar
Kirsten Thien
• Solo Live from the Meisenfrei Blues Club
Ashley Lennon Thomas
• Sparkle Plenty
Al Thompson Jr.
• City Mainstream
Tingstad & Rumbel
• Comfort & Joy
The Alex Tintinalli Band
• Nothing to Lose
Trio Pantango
• Tango Argentino
Joe Triplett
• Joe Triplett
Walter Trout
• Full Circle
Tanya Tucker
• My Turn
The Two Sisters
• Songs & Chansons
Helen Tzatzimakis
• Soulfully
Sal Valentino
• Dreamin' Man
various artists
• Alan Lomax in Haiti
• Anthology of the Twelve String Guitar
• Best of Cuba
• The Bluesmasters, Vol. II
• Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways
• Pa's Fiddle
• Powwow Songs: Music from the Plains Indians
• Sufi Songs of Love: From India & Iran
Victor & Penny
• Electricity
Jimmy Vivino & the Black Italians
• 13 Live
Sloan Wainwright
• Upside Down & Under My Heart
The Chase Walker Band
• Not Quite Legal
Marion Walsh
• Home to Home
Wardruna
• Runaljod - Ragnarok
Tim Warfield
• Jazzy Christmas
Wendy Weatherby
• Sunset Song
Kevin Welch
• A Patch of Blue Sky
Monster Mike Welch
• Just Like It Is
Wensday
• Torch Rock
Susan Werner
• The Gospel Truth
Frank Wess
• Magic 101
West of Memphis
• Honey Pie
Charlie Wheeler Band
• Blues Karma & the Kitchen Sink
Cheryl Wheeler
• Pointing at the Sun
Whiskey of the Damned
• Monsters are Real
Johnny Whitehorse
• Totemic Flute Chants
Pat Wictor
• Heaven is So High & I'm So Far Down
Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks
• Born to be Wilder
• More Like Me
Jay Willie Blues Band
• Hell on Wheels
Paul Winter Sextet
• Count Me In 1962-1963
Bob Wolfman
• Transition
John York & Kim Fowley
• West Coast Revelation
Pamela York
• Lay Down This World
Big Bob Young
• Hard Way to Make a Dollar
Reggie Young
• Young Street
Tommy Z
• Blizzard of Blues
Michelle Zangara
• Songs of Blue
Mike Zito
• Pearl River
• Today
The Zozo Sisters
• Adieu False Heart
Books:
Mark Adams
• Meet Me in Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City
Scott Alarik
• Revival: a Folk Music Novel
Anita Amirrezvani
• The Blood of Flowers
Benjamin Appel
• Life & Death of a Tough Guy
• Sweet Money Girl
Rae Armentrout
• Money Shot
Raymond L. Atkins
• Camp Redemption
• The Front Porch Prophet
• Sorrow Wood
Larry D. Ball
• Tom Horn: In Life & Legend
Christopher Balzano
• Dark Woods: Cults, Crime & Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest
Sandra Balzo
• Running on Empty
Adrienne Barbeau
• Love Bites
Jonathan Baumbach
• You (or the Invention of Memory)
Charles Baxter
• Gryphon: New & Selected Stories
Peter S. Beagle
• The Last Unicorn
Nathan Belofsky
• Strange Medicine
Raymond Benson
• Dark Side of the Morgue
Christina Binkley
• Winner Takes All
Larry Birnbaum
• Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll
Lawrence Block
• Borderline
• Sinner Man
Peter Blood & Annie Patterson, editors
• Rise Again Songbook
Victor V. Bobetsky, editor
• We Shall Overcome: Essays on a Great American Song
John Boessenecker
• When Law was in the Holster
John M. Borack
• John Lennon: Life is What Happens
Tim Bowling
• Fathom
Leigh Brackett
• Stranger at Home
Simon Brett
• Blotto, Twinks & the Dead Dowager Duchess
Gil Brewer
• Angry Arnold
• A Devil for O'Shaugnessy
• The Erotics
• Gun the Dame Down
• The Three Way Split
Heather Brewer
• Legacy of Tril #1: Soulbound
Donald Brown
• Bob Dylan: American Troubadour
Jerry Burgan & Alan Rifkin
• Wounds to Bind: a Memoir of the Folk-Rock Revolution
W.R. Burnett
• Iron Man
• It's Always Four O'Clock
William J. Bush
• Greenback Dollar: The Rise of the Kingston Trio
Lorna Byrne
• Angels in My Hair
James M. Cain
• The Cocktail Waitress
Joseph Campbell
• The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Johnny Cash
• Forever Words: The Unknown Poems, edited by Paul Muldoon
Gordon Castelnero & David L. Russell
• Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon
Janie Chodosh
• Death Spiral
Harlan Coben
• Don't Let Go
• The Stranger
Myke Cole
• Shadow Ops: Control Point
Max Allan Collins
• Quarry in the Black
• Seduction of the Innocent
Allan Cooper
• The Alma Elegies
Christopher Coppes
• Messages from the Light
Miles Corwin
• Kind of Blue
Michael Crichton
• Binary, writing as John Lange
• Drug of Choice, writing as John Lange
• Easy Go, writing as John Lange
• Grave Descend, writing as John Lange
• Odds On, writing as John Lange
• Scratch One, writing as John Lange
• The Venom Business, writing as John Lange
• Zero Cool, writing as John Lange
Ian Morgan Cron
• Chasing Francis
Jada M. Davis
• One for Hell
John W. Davis
• The Trial of Tom Horn
Josh Dean
• The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
Mark De Castrique
• The Sandburg Connection
Vicki Delany
• Among the Departed
Tony Delvecchio & Rich Herschlag
• Sinatra, Gotti & Me
Toby Devens
• Happy Any Day Now
Alex DiBlasi & Victoria Willis, editors
• Geek Rock: An Exploration of Music & Subculture
John F. Dobbyn
• Frame Up
Larry Dossey
• The Power of Premonitions
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Outlaw Woman: a Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975
David Eagleman
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
David Ensminger
• Mavericks of Sound
Delia Ephron
• Sister, Mother, Husband, Dog, etc.
Jennifer Cody Epstein
• The Painter from Shanghai
Loren D. Estleman
• The Left-Handed Dollar
Mary Anna Evans
• Rituals
Robert Fate
• Baby Shark's High Plains Redemption
Christa Faust
• Choke Hold
Joseph Finder
• The Fixer
• Suspicion
Robert Finley, Patrick Freisen, Aisllinn Hunter, Anne Simpson & Jan Zwicky
• A Ragged Pen: Essays on Poetry & Memory
A.S. Fleischman
• Danger in Paradise
• Malay Woman
Richard Foerster
• The Burning of Troy
Alice B. Fogel
• Strange Terrain: a Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader
Charlotte Forbes
• The Good Works of Ayela Linde
Adam Fortunate Eagle
• Scalping Columbus & Other Damn Indian Stories
Gene Feldman & Max Gartenberg, editors
• The Beat Generation & the Angry Young Men
Stanton T. Friedman
• Flying Saucers & Science
Meg Gardiner
• Phantom Instinct
Earl Stanley Gardner, writing as A.A. Fair
• The Knife Slipped
Phillip Gardner
• Gateways to the Otherworld
John Grange
• Super-Detective Flip Book: Legion of Robots/Murder's Migrants
H. Terrell Griffin
• Bitter Legacy
Donald Hamilton
• Death of a Citizen
• The Wrecking Crew
Hank Hanegraaff
• Christianity in Crisis: 21st Century
Hart Hanson
• The Driver
Craig Harris
• The Band: Pioneers of Americana Music
• Heartbeat, Warble & the Electric Powwow: American Indian Music
Orrie Hitt
• The Cheaters
• Dial "M" for Man
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
• Dark Power
• The Old Battle-Ax
Alexandra Holzer
• Growing Up Haunted
Hans Holzer
• The Spirit Connection
Karen Houle
• During
Katherine Howe, editor,
• The Penguin Book of Witches
Mary G. Hurd
• Kris Kristofferson: Country Highwayman
Mitsutoshi Inaba
• John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson: The Blues Harmonica of Chicago's Bronzeville
Washington Irving
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Other Stories
Michael Jarrett
• Producing Country: The Inside Story of the Great Recordings
Deborah Johnson
• The Secret of Magic
James David Jordan
• Forsaken
Deborah Kapchan
• Traveling Spirit Masters: Morrocan Gnawa Trance & Music in the Global Marketplace
Eric Kaplan
• Does Santa Exist?
Edward G. Kardos
• Zen Master Next Door
Will Kaufman
• Woody Guthrie's Modern World Blues
John A. Keel
• The Mothman Prophecies
Bradford Keeney
• Shamanic Christianity
Timothy Keller
• Prayer: Experiencing Awe & Intimacy With God
Mac Kenney
• My Pictures, My Words
Monica Kidd
• Actualities
Stephen King
• Joyland
Peter Kirsanow
• Target Omega
Joseph Koenig
• False Negative
Justin Kramon
• Finny
Mark Kurlansky
• The Food of a Younger Land
Camilla Lackberg
• The Ice Princess
Mercedes Lackey
• Trio of Sorcery
Mercedes Lambert
• Dogtown/Soultown
William Lashner
• A Killer's Kiss
Ronnie Lee
• The Philosophy of Life: God, Wisdom & the World Psyche
Carol Leifer
• How to Succeed in Business without Really Crying
Bob Leszczak
• Who Did It First? Great Pop Cover Songs & Their Original Artists
• Who Did It First? Great Rhythm & Blues Cover Songs & Their Original Artists
• Who Did It First? Great Rock 'n' Roll Cover Songs
Joyce Lucia
• Voice for Musicians
Ed Lynskey
• Lake Charles
Bill C. Malone
• Sing Me Back Home: Southern Roots & Country Music
Gary Marcus
• Guitar Zero: The New Musician & the Science of Learning
Thomas C. Maroukis
• The Peyote Road: Religious Freedom & the Native American Church
Stephen Hawley Martin
• The Science of Life After Death
Elan Mastai
• All Our Wrong Todays
Jack McDevitt
• Firebird
Scot McKnight & Hauna Ondrey
• Finding Faith, Losing Faith
Wade Miller
• Devil on Two Sticks
• The Killer
Liz Moore
• The Words of Every Song
Bill Myers & Dave Wimbish
• The Dark Side of the Supernatural
Fred Nadis
• The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey
Michael Norman
• Skeleton Picnic
James H. Nottage, editor
• Generations
Jim Palmer
• Divine Nobodies: Shedding Religion to Find God
• Wide Open Spaces
Michael Palmer
• The First Patient
Dennis Palumbo
• Fever Dream
Elise Paschen & Rebecca Presson Mosby, editors
• Poetry Speaks Expanded
Steven Polansky
• The Bradbury Report
Maggie Pouncey
• Perfect Reader
Bill Pronzini
• Femme
• Kinsmen
Daniel Quinn
• Dreamer
Peter Rabe
• Anatomy of a Killer
• The Return of Marvin Palaver
• A Shroud for Jesso
• The Silent Wall
Mickey Zucker Reichert
• I, Robot: To Protect
Kristopher Reisz
• Tripping to Somewhere
Jesse Rice
• The Church of Facebook
Kat Ricker
• Something Familiar
Ingrid Ricks
• Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story
Hank Rineke
• Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years
Erika Robuck
• The House of Hawthorne
Lawrence Rodgers & Jerrold Hirsch, editors
• America's Folklorist: B.A. Botkin & American Culture
Timme Rosenkrantz
• Harlem Jazz Adventures
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Rob Salkowitz
• Comic-Con & the Business of Pop Culture
Elizabeth D. Samet
• Soldier's Heart
Peter Sanger
• Aiken Drum
Lou Scheimer & Andy Mangels
• Creating the Filmation Generation
Jennifer Scott
• The Sister Season
Matthew Shenoda
• Somewhere Else
Evie Shockley
• The New Black
Robert Silverberg
• Blood on the Mink
Cheryl Simone
• Midnights With the Mystic
Johanna Skibsrud
• Late Nights With Wild Cowboys
Jeffrey Small
• The Breath of God
Patricia Smith
• Teahouse of the Almighty
Philip Smith
• Walking Through Walls
Richard Smith & Maureen McElheron
• There is a God: 1,001 Heartwarming (and Hilarious) Reasons to Believe
Thomas Noel Smith
• "Dust" & Other Poems
Jose Carlos Somoza
• Zig Zag
Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins
• Complex 90
• The Consummata
• King of the Weeds
• Lady, Go Die
Carmine Starnino
• With English Subtitles
Daniel Stashower
• The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Dime Museum Murders
• The Harry Houdini Mysteries: The Floating Lady Murder
Mark Steele
• Christianish
Andrew Steinmetz
• Eva's Threepenny Theatre
Charlie Stella
• Eddie's World
• Johnny Porno
• Rough Riders
S. Thomas Summers
• Death Settled Well
Karen Holliday Tanner & John D. Tanner Jr.
• Last of the Old Time Outlaws: The George West Musgrave Story
Robert Love Taylor
• Blind Singer Joe's Blues
John Terpstra
• Two or Three Guitars
Dave Thompson
• The Wit & Wisdom of Ozzie Osborne
Robert V. Thompson
• A Voluptuous God
Harry Thurston
• Broken Vessel
Mark Van De Logt
• War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
Michael Waters
• Darling Vulgarity
Donald E. Westlake
• The Comedy is Finished
T.H. White
• The Once & Future King
Aliya Whitely
• The Beauty
Harry Whittington
• Body & Passion
• A Haven for the Damned
• Like Mink, Like Murder
• To Find Cora
Annie Wilder, editor
• Trucker Ghost Stories
Gordon Williams
• The Siege of Trencher's Farm
Elizabeth Willis
• Address
Thomas Wiloch
• Screaming in Code
D.L. Wilson
• Unholy Grail
Ariel S. Winter
• The Twenty-Year Death
Christopher E. Wolf
• Haunted Highways & Ghostly Travelers
Al Young
• Something About the Blues
Michael P. Zirpolo
• Mr. Trumpet: The Trials, Tribulations & Triumph of Bunny Berigan
Graphic novels:
Graphic Classics
• Native American Classics
Modesty Blaise: Live Bait
Starling
Interviews:
Mary Black: for the joy of music
The Blind Boys of Alabama (Jimmy Carter): gospel is alive
Carolyn Hester: & the Fortress of Folk
Eileen Ivers: keeping the tradition alive
Jennifer Knapp: from contemporary Christian to Americana
Ralphie May: comedy & a need to change the world
Maura O'Connell: a singer in retirement
Red Molly: poised for the leap
Kevin Welch: keeps on writing songs
Performances:
Cherish the Ladies
Melanie
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
The Outlaws
Red Molly & The Seldom Scene
Rusted Root
Movies:
Alien Attack Collection
Around
As I Lay Dying
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
Beautiful Darling
Blue Jasmine
The Family
Girls Rock
A History of Christianity
Mark of the Beast
Step Up: Revolution
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