A train car on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge line is the perfect size for a performing one-man band tucked into either end of the car. Roughly about 102 inches or 8.5 feet wide, a single ...
Meade “Lux” Lewis didn’t just record a blues—he conjured a rolling landscape of rhythm and motion. Cut in 1928, “Honky Tonk Train Blues” demanded a great deal of the pianist: relentless drive, ...
Forbidden from playing music, a young Elizabeth Cotten — born in 1893 in what is now part of Carrboro — secretly borrowed her brother’s banjo and guitar. She flipped the instruments upside down to ...