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Our recommendations for summer reading in 2021, featuring many books with Wisconsin DNA, and including selections for children and teens.

Golden anniversary approaches for the ultimate bar band It's been nearly 50 years since Dr. Bop and the Headliners featuring The White Raven played its first gig at Nitty Gritty. May 10, 2021 7:04 AM Doug Moe Updated: Dr. Bop and the Headliners featuring The White Raven. What Al Craven remembers most of that May 1976 night at Lambeau Field isn’t the rain — although it was a deluge — nor the wind, which blew the plastic canopy off the stage before the band started. Sprinting onto the field through the fabled Lambeau goalposts was a hoot, but even that’s not wh...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago….   As 1971 began Boz Scaggs was recording a new LP…his 3rd overall and first for Columbia. The blue-eyed soul crooner and underrated guitarist would, once again release a collection of eclectic tune ranging from soulful ballads, up tempo pop love songs and a couple of blues tunes just so he wouldn’t forget where he came from. Scaggs cut his teeth in the original Steve Miller Band with his ole college bud from UW-Madison and has some of his Wisconsin friends on this one including Wausau native James “Curley” Cooke on guitar and...

We continue our look back at the music of 50 years ago....   As 1971 began Boz Scaggs was recording a new...

Image credit: William P. Gottlieb / Library of Congress Author and former NPR music host Ben Sidran has updated his book “There Was A Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream” to explore the influence of Jewish Americans on American pop culture from the 19th century to today. It’s out on March 23. On March 23, the book “There Was A Fire: Jews, Music and the American Dream” is getting a revised and updated edition almost a decade after its original release. “The whole premise of the book is that the Jews brought to American popular music and popular culture something that we...