A five-time W.C. Handy award-winner and the fourth generation of a venerable musical family, Jessie Mae Hemphill (1923-2006), from the North Mississippi Hill C...
Huntington Hartford, heir to the A&P fortune, was once a fixture on Manhattan’s social upper crust. By the time Cree McCree was hired as his personal secret...
Born in the Mississippi Delta, the son of a sharecropping pastor, John Lee Hooker absorbed the blues of that region before heading north and picking up an elect...
John Fahey (1939-2001) was one of the most original composer/guitarists of the late 20th century and yet he traveled under the radar of anyone but the most intr...
After a harrowing decade of personal and medical travails, Marianne Faithfull staged a remarkable musical comeback with the 1979 release of Broken English. Stil...
Cree McCree is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Details, Spin, High Times, US, No Depression, Downbeat, Oxford American, Rollingstone.com and other national outlets. The author of Flea Market America: A Complete Guide to Flea Enterprise, she currently lives in New Orleans, where she makes wearable assemblage art and runs a lively art and flea market when she’s not out dancing or hunched over her keyboard.
