Ry Cooder, multi-instrumentalist and diviner of exotic musical traditions, has rediscovered one style of music that’s actually native to the United States and is the subject of his current touring …
Sliding Home: Highlights of Ry Cooder’s Catalog From Knox Co. Public Library
Paris, Texas The truth of musical lore is almost always more compelling than myth. As a guitar slide, early 20th-century bluesman Blind Willie Johnson preferred the side of a knife …
Listen Up: A Summer Vacation List of Knox Co. Library Audiobooks
Your public library owns more than 22,000 audiobooks. Most of them are compact-disc packages; a few thousand endure on cassette tape. And an ever-increasing portion of them exist as licensed …
A Guide to the Best Elmore Leonard Film Adaptations From the Knox Co. Library
Since there are more than 40 film adaptations of Elmore Leonard’s novels, Westerns, and short stories, you might imagine that he wrote with the screen foremost in mind. In interviews, …
Beatle Videomania: A Guide to the Knox Co. Library’s Collection of Beatles Videos
A Hard Day’s Night Richard Lester’s stylish and innovative feature-length music video introduced the world to the Beatles’ impending film franchise in 1964. It’s a fluffy lark—mostly John, Paul, George, …