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Favorite Posts

The Great Cuban Folk Singer Silvio Rodriguez and my Time in El Salvador working for the FMLN Revolutionary Movement. I learned to love the music of Silvio Rodrigues while I was in El Salvador, but I learned a whole lot more than that.
Hard Lessons for My Head and My Heart Reflecting on the movie Just Mercy and my trip last year to Montgomery, Alabama
In Search of The Clark Sisters Reviewing the Clark Sisters biopic and my search to find the Clark Sisters singing in Detroit
Little What? On the movie Little Women — or was it Little House on the Praire?

What I Have Been Reading

Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
Rachel by Elinor Lipman
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
The Wise Man’s Fears by Patrick Rothfuss
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
Klara and the Sun by Kazou Ishiguro
Invisible City by Julia Dahl
Songs of Innocence by Richard Aleas
Outlawed by Anna North
Prodigal Son by Greg Hurwitz
The Color of Money by Walter Tevis
The Hustler by Walter Tevis
The Kingdom by Emmanuel Carrere
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab
Fleischman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
The Orchard by David Hopen
Law of Innocence by Michael Connelly
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
The Flesh Peddlers by Don Elliott (aka Robert Silverberg)
The Biggest Bluff by Maria Konnikova
Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell
Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
Love Poems for Married People by John Kenney

Previous books I have read are available here.

Listening To

Lee’s Recent Favorite Songs Songs I have been listening to and loving this year. In January, this long playlist will get boiled down to a much shorter playlist of my favorite songs of the year.
Lee’s 2020 Favorite Songs
Soulful Songs from Abbey Lincoln to Al Green, avoiding the most obvious and famous songs.
The Marfa Tapes by Miranda Lambert, Jack Ingram, Jon Randall. One of the best albums of the year. Three friends sitting around the campfire, handing a guitar back and forth, and trading songs. You can hear the fire crackle.
Outside Child by Allison Russell. Another favorite record of the year, by this soulful, folky singer.
Chet Atkins Guitar Instrumentals from all parts of his career
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the great gospel singer and guitarist and rock and roll foremother. She should be more well known than she is.
Nanci Griffith. This is a career retrospective from the great folk-country singer songwriter who passed away recently.
Wanda Jackson. The great rockabilly and country singer guitarist has a new record out produced by Joan Jett. I like it, but not as much as her earlier work in this playlist.
Julie London. I admit to having a crush on Julie London, the cool and quietly soulful jazz and standards singer from the 195os and 1960s.
Big Stir Records and Power Pop Favorites. Recent, sweet rock songs from this Los Angeles indie record label.
Power Pop Classics Sweet-as-sugar melodies and big, crunchy guitar — two great tastes that taste great together.
Seventies Soft Rock Guilty pleasures with strong melodies, lush orchestration, and all the rough edges sanded away.
Silvio Rodriguez Favorites The great Cuban folk singer, beloved throughout Latin America.
Betty Wright Playlist The great soul singer passed away. She is best known for the song Clean Up Woman.
Take Me Back to the Range: Selections from Western Jubilee Recording Company Nothing is more comforting in these times than these gentle songs about wide-open spaces.
Michael Martin Murphy Cowboy Songs Comforting acoustic cowboy songs
Prince: The Complete Collection
Joe Ely – Love in the Midst of Mayhem This underrated Texas Americana singer and songwriter’s new album is timely and moving.
The Clark Sisters My favorite songs on Spotify from one of my favorites: this gospel singing group.
John Prine Playlist A collection of songs from this late, great national treasure.
Adam Schlesinger Playlist A collection of songs from the late power-pop songwriter best known from Fountains of Wayne and his film and TV work.
The Shelter-In-Place Streaming Festival Soundtrack Songs from the movies and TV shows I have been watching and writing about