“If it hadn’t been for music, the civil rights movement would’ve been like a bird without wings.” –John Lewis That quote from John Lewis speaks directly to the power of song, one of mankind’s oldest ...
In the Song Spotlights section, Andra Day, Noel Paul Stookey and Ziggy Marley discuss socially conscious songs that are close to them. By Paul Grein The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles will present an ...
About a week after he watched footage of George Floyd’s death, seasoned Chicago bluesman Dave Specter did something he’d never done before — he wrote a topical song. “It was such a strange time,” he ...