Tady column: Center bluesman cooks up something special
On his first full-length album, Charlie Barath takes the blues into tasty new territory. Barath treats us to haluski, pierogi, halupki and the smell of kielbasa in the kitchen on "High Ball & a Covered Dish," a song inspired by the cooking of his mother, a first generation Polish-American. Forget the catfish, cornbread, beans and barbecue typically on the lyrical menu of blues songs, Barath's "High Ball & a Covered Dish" kicks dupa (look it up) with its ode to Eastern European heritage carrying over to his mom wearing a babushka. The Center Township bluesman's whole "Just Me and My...