Channing Lynn News Today

Alexander Michael hails from North Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Greg, played guitar and started teaching Alexander music at 8 years old, around camp fires and in the kitchen.

A story in the Paradise section of The Key West Citizen on Wednesday, May 18, misspelled the last name of musician Channing Lynn Griggs. The Citizen regrets the error.

Williams says he wanted Trickster Carousel songs to have both depth and naughtiness. On the quintet’s new album, Snake Oil, available for purchase on the bands website, iTunes and Apple Music, Williams explores ideas he wrote about in The Trickster Brain. Take the upbeat foot-tapping swing cut “Cradle to the Grave,” a humorous song about death and evolution that sounds like Tom Waits sitting in with the Squirrel Nut Zippers. “Evolution never meant to make us happy,” Williams says....