Dhafer Youssef, a Tunisian oudist and muezzin-styled vocalist, with Tigran Hamasyan an Armenian pianist. If I gave grades, this would get 100.

What do you use when words aren’t enough?
Music.

A Rosh HaShana gift – 15 bootleg covers that never appeared on Laura’s official albums.

55 years ago I dreamed a dream. Last week the tapes arrived.

Getting older without growing up – what more could a baby-boomer ask for?
Don’t worry, the suits will take care of you.

“C’mon, Wilbert, pick up them feet, you shiftless shuffler you! The lady’s a-waiting!”
“Hey, I ain’t sweating or fretting or agitating for no woman.”

The #1 hits from 1963, all 21 of them. Our lives before The Beatles.

Carole King’s remarkable metamorphosis from teen mom songsmith to Earth Mother poetess.
She composed the soundtrack of our times on her piano, and wrought the template of our times with her life.