There is nothing I like about cold weather. Winter is the only season to be endured and not celebrated, and the frigidity’s why. Otherwise, there’d be timeless pop like “Cold Fun in the Wintertime” an

As I type this sentence, I fulfill the last prediction I made for last year’s Year in Preview issue, which was that I would trot out this same conceit, predicting events for the year upcoming, to fill

I hope you didn’t get what you want for Christmas this year. It’s nice to have every wish fulfilled, but not so nice to fall prey to the torpor satiety invariably induces. We could ask Tiger Woods

We were putting up the Dead Musicians’ Tree at the studio this week, the latest questionable addition to Yuletide protocol at our little recording enterprise. The tradition had its roots, if you wi

This is surely the greatest country in the history of countries. Every time you think the nation’s problems have reached a point at which activists on either end of the political spectrum must finally

The Thanksgiving column comes early this year, but that’s the only thing about Thanksgiving that will. The same sort of calendar quirk giving us three Fridays the 13th is pushing Turkey Day practicall

The Reverend Doctor Joe Lowery will be receiving an award Friday night. This is not an unusual occurrence. The venerable Civil Rights activist is lauded for his contributions to society on a fairly re

Now that I ponder, I don’t remember exactly when I stopped writing concert reviews. Certainly I have loaded the landfill of popular culture with more than my share of such, but time is revealing them

Through the years Alabama has had pretty good luck sneaking its progressive thinkers through enemy lines. Jabez Curry, the old rebel soldier whose statue used to stand in the Capitol, was an early cha

In the words of the great Southern novelist Dr. Ferrol Sams, Jim Lauderdale was Raised Right. Despite being one of the busiest players in the music industry, writing hit songs for artists like George