(Bear Family) 2016 One of Elvis’ chief inspirations, blues legend Arthur Crudup was overdue for a complete overview of his classic...

I spent quite a few of my earliest evenings on this planet inside the Cairo Supper Club. Located on Sheridan Road just north of Irving...

(Sunset Blvd. Records) 2017 A three-CD selected overview of Bobby Robinson’s Harlem-based Fire and Fury labels that I curated and wrote...

(Earwig Records) 2019 Narvel “Cadillac Baby” Eatmon ran his little Bea & Baby label (and various subsidiaries) on Chicago’s South Side,...

(Sunset Blvd. Records) 2018 Three CDs jam-packed with the 1960s and ‘70s work of delightfully jovial New Orleans R&B singer Lee Dorsey....

(Krause Publications, 2001) This was my first book. It was a collaboration with former Motown promo man Weldon A. McDougal III, whose...

(Nola Blue, Inc., 2017) The autobiography of blues bassist Benny Turner, with me ghosting the text. Benny took a very hands-on approach...

Chicago's Soul Saxophone Giant Jabbing, soaring, always sporting a soul-soaked edge, Gene “Daddy G” Barge’s tenor saxophone is as every...

(University of Chicago Press, 2016) An elegant coffee table book, rendered that way by all the extraordinary artifacts that were gathered...

(Bear Family) Everything this Detroit-based quintet cut for Federal and King during their golden decade, spread across five CDs! All...

The Yakety Sax Man Every major recording center had at least one resident saxophone wailer during the 1950s and early ‘60s whose socking...

Magic Sam and Freddy King were the Chicago West Side’s leading guitar slingers during the genre’s heyday. Eddy Clearwater was right there to