In response to my comment that “I couldn’t care less about the artists; my only interest is the music and the composer,” Michael Alford wrote me with a fascinating observation. You may already have read some of this gentleman’s work: last month, he published Swindled, an account of the GOP’s corruption and abuse of Ron Paul during the presidential primaries. When he isn’t writing, Rev. Alford preaches the Gospel. He told me that my emphasis on music and composers rather than the performers “reminded me of how I prepared and eventually preached a sermon on music a  few years back. … Continue reading Music History