Tag: books

  • Happy October 7!

    You probably never knew what a cool birthday this is. It isn’t every kid who grows up in a place where his whole hometown throws a festival on his birthday. I grew up straddling U.S. 40, the Old National Road, in Greenfield, Indiana, and my October 7 birthday fell on the same day and month…

  • You Wanna Boogie?Boogie Woogie Woogie With Me

    Singer/songwriter John Hartford made up that line, and you can drop it if you like at this year’s Bloomington Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano Festival. By Mike Leonard Hartford’s little ditty paid homage to the playful double-entendre tunes of jazz and blues and whatever your wink-wink interpretation such references suggested. They all meant ‘having a…