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Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music by Judy Collins

On November 14, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, It's all about music..., Music, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is the deeply personal, honest, and revealing memoir of folk legend and relentlessly creative spirit Judy Collins. In it, she talks about her alcoholism, her lasting love affair with Stephen Stills, her friendships with Joan Baez, Richard and Mimi Fariña, David Crosby, and Leonard Cohen and, above all, the music that helped define a decade and a generation’s sound track.

Pandora Favorites: The Music Of Rosie Thomas

On November 13, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Wilfried F. Voss

Rosie Thomas is an American singer-songwriter, originally from Michigan. It was through mutual friends that she met Trey Many and began playing shows with Velour 100. They recorded one EP together and played a few short tours, where she met Damien Jurado and Pedro the Lion. She then moved to Seattle to briefly attend Cornish College before deciding to focus on a solo recording career.

Pandora Favorites: The Music Of Plumb

On November 11, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Wilfried F. Voss

Tiffany Arbuckle Lee (born March 9, 1975, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Contemporary Christian singer-songwriter who uses the stage name Plumb. She has performed several different genres of music, including alternative rock and Christian alternative rock and a few of her remixes have appeared on dance charts.

Pandora Favorites: The Music Of “A Fine Frenzy”

On November 10, 2011, in It's all about music..., Musical Favorites, Wilfried F. Voss, by Wilfried F. Voss

Alison Sudol (born 23 December 1984), known professionally as A Fine Frenzy (formerly Alison Monro, is a US alternative singer and songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, One Cell in the Sea, was released on July 17, 2007, and peaked at number 91 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels by Justin Vivian Bond

On September 3, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Entertainment, Nonfiction, by Wilfried F. Voss

Recently hailed as “the greatest cabaret artist of [V's] generation” in The New Yorker, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary debut with this staggeringly candid and hilarious novella-length memoir.

Music CD: Back to Black by Amy Winehouse

On July 25, 2011, in It's all about music..., by Wilfried F. Voss

Hailed by Newsweek Magazine as a cross between Billie Holiday and Lauryn Hill, British soul singer Amy Winehouse’s U.S. debut, Back To Black hits the US amid a flurry of accolades, radio and TV buzz unprecedented in recent years for a young siren.

Amy Winehouse – A Life Messier Than Music

On July 24, 2011, in It's all about music..., by Wilfried F. Voss

Amy Jade Winehouse (14 September 1983 – 23 July 2011) was a British singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B,soul and jazz.

No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf by Carolyn Burke

On March 27, 2011, in Book Reviews, by Wilfried F. Voss

Introduced here as “one of the greatest vocalists of the twentieth century,” iconic French singer Edith Piaf is accorded a perceptive, supportive, even definitive biography by seasoned biographer Burke (Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy, 1996; Lee Miller, 2005), who had access to previously untapped Piaf documents. For the singer’s fans, it’s a generally well-known fact that Piaf grew up, and grew up singing, on the streets of the shady side of Paris.

Blessed – The Stunning New Album From Three-Time Grammy Award-Winner Lucinda Williams

On February 26, 2011, in It's all about music..., by Wilfried F. Voss

Blessed, the stunning new album from three-time Grammy Award-winner Lucinda Williams is set for release on March 1st 2011 by Lost Highway. Considered by many to be one of America’s greatest living songwriters, Williams lives up to that and more by delivering 12 new songs that cover an even wider emotional spectrum than her previous work, without moving too far in any one direction. Blessed opens with the gritty kiss-off “Buttercup” then moves seamlessly into the sultry blues of “Born To Be Loved”.

Heat Wave: The Life and Career of Ethel Waters by Donald Bogle

On February 11, 2011, in Book Reviews, Entertainment, by Wilfried F. Voss

Almost no other star of the twentieth century reimagined herself with such audacity and durable talent as did Ethel Waters. In this enlightening and engaging biography, Donald Bogle resurrects this astonishing woman from the annals of history, shedding new light on the tumultuous twists and turns of her seven-decade career, which began in Black vaudeville and reached new heights in the steamy nightclubs of 1920s Harlem.