The Selected Ballads

Catching up after putting the blog on hiatus for a while, here are some more or less recent albums, books, and live performances I've en...

Being less a list than a year-end roundup in numbered sections. The order is not to be taken as a ranking of relative quality, except perha...

The Human Hearts -  Flag Pin  EP Franklin Bruno's recent EP is a digital-only appetizer for the forthcoming full-length Human Hearts a...

The Master One of the best movie experiences I've had in a long time was seeing The Master in 70mm at the Ziegfeld Theater. I avoided ...

Since completing the first two parts ( A Time of Gifts and  Between the Woods and the Water ) of Patrick Leigh Fermor's as-yet unfinish...

Dirty Projectors -  Swing Lo Magellan     The new DPs album has grown on me after some initial disappointment. Though I've found much ...

Thoughts on two records featuring the compositions, but not the playing, of two of the most distinctive instrumentalist-composers of the pas...