Hi everyone, here are our three recommended non-fiction DVDs for this week!
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See What I’m Saying
Description: With more than 30 million deaf and hard of hearing individuals living in the U.S., deaf culture thrives in America. Yet although deaf performers are famous within their own communities, they remain largely unknown to hearing audiences.
A powerful and rare glimpse into the lives of deaf artists, SEE WHAT I M SAYING focuses on four deaf performers actor Robert DeMayo, singer TL Forsberg, drummer Bob Hiltermann, and comic CJ Jones over the course of one year as they endeavor to cross over into mainstream culture. Together, their fascinating and intertwining stories showcase the talent and the universal human appeal of their gripping journeys
Illuminating and inspirational, SEE WHAT I M SAYING opens a door into America s vibrant deaf culture for those who are signing impaired.
Dewey Decimal System Number: DVD 362.42 SEE
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Ireland’s Wild Coast
Description: Ireland’s Wild Coast is a journey along one of the most spectacular coastlines in the world, featuring the wildlife and wild places that make it so special. As never captured before, this series features Ireland’s west coast and wildlife wonders from the Skellig Rocks; to breaching humpback whales; to golden eagles; to majestic salmon; to the clash of Ireland s last surviving red deer stags.
Dewey Decimal System Number: DVD 914.15 IRE
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Touching The Wild: Living with the Mule Deer of Deadman Gulch
Description: From PBS – Joe Hutto’s remarkable ability to interact with wild creatures was previously portrayed in the award-winning NATURE film, My Life as a Turkey. His new wild family is made up of mule deer living high in the mountains near his home in Wyoming, and the extraordinary story of how he became one of them pushes once again at the boundaries of how we perceive wild animals.
Dewey Decimal System Number: DVD 599.653 TOU
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Have a good weekend!
Linda, SSCL
P.S. Don’t forget the library is open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. so when you’re out and about – drop in and check out some books and DVDs!
Hi everyone, here are our six musical recommendations for the week; five streaming suggestions and one recommended album on CD.
(Click on the photo to stream or request the album)
Freegal Streaming Suggestions*
1. The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5: Bob Dylan Live 1975 – The Rolling Thunder Revue (Genre: Rock & Folk):
This set features material from Bob Dylan’s famous 1975 tour. Joan Baez and Roger McGuinn appear on this set and it features his 1975 interpretations of some of his classic songs including: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, Mr. Tambourine Man, Blowin’ in the Wind (with Baez), It’s All over Now, Tangled Up in Blue and Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (with McGuinn)
2. A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Genre: Pop, Classic Rock):
Featuring the late Roy Orbison on vocals backed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and featuring Roy Orbison Jr. on guitar and Alex Orbison on drums this 2017 release is sure to please any Roy Orbison fan!
Songs on the LP include: Oh, Pretty Woman, In Dreams, Blue Angel, Uptown, I Drove All Knight and Mean Woman Blues.
3. Be Good by Gregory Porter (Genre: Jazz, Vocal):
Originally from California singer/songwriter Gregory Porter moved to Brooklyn in his youth to pursue a career in music. He is a huge fan of Nat King Cole and you can hear that influence in his music. Be Good is his second album original released in 2012.
Songs on the album include: On My Way to Harlem, Painted on Canvas, When Did You Learn & Our Love.
4. Unapologetically by Kelsea Ballerini (Genre: Country, Pop):
Ballerini hails from Knoxville, Tennessee and today hails from Nashville. Unapologetically is her new album and features the songs: Kiss Me More, Get Over Yourself, High School and Legends.
5. Leftover Live And Beyond by Kansas:
This album by the classic rock group Kansas, was released November 3, 2017. The album features the band in concert playing the entire Leftoverture LP live and also includes some of their classic hits.
Songs on the LP include: Dust in the Wind, Rhythm in the Spirit, Voyage of Eight Eighteen, Carry On Wayward Son & What’s On My Mind.
CD Suggestion of the Week:
4:44 by Jay-Z (Genre: Rap)
Iconic rapper Jay-Z grew up in New York City and launched his career during the rap boom of the early nineteen nineties. 4:44 is his 2017 release and includes the songs: The Story of O.J., Smile, Caught Their Eyes, 4:44 and Family Feud.
Streaming Videos of the Week:
Sara by Bob Dylan with the Rolling Thunder Review:
I Drove All Night by Roy Orbison and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra:
Be Good by Gregory Porter:
Unapologetically by Kelsea Ballerini:
Icarus (Borne On Wings Of Steel) by Kansas:
4:44 by Jay-Z:
Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL
P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713
*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and includes our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York!
Library cards are free if you live in our service area. And you can obtain a card by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features your name and your current address.
Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for today.
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Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:
A Catered Thanksgiving, Mystery with Recipes Series, Book 7 by Isis Crawford:
Whipping up Thanksgiving dinner can be stressful for anyone, but that goes double for the Field family. Everything has to be perfect, or they risk getting cut out of dominating patriarch Monty’s lucrative will. That’s where sisters Bernie and Libby’s catering company, A Little Taste of Heaven, comes in. Surely with their lumpless mashed potatoes and to-die-for gravy, even the super-dysfunctional Fields can get along for one meal. But no one can dress up disaster when the turkey goes boom right in Monty’s scowling face, sending him to that great dining room in the sky.
With everyone harboring their own cornucopia of secrets, discovering who wanted to carve up Monty won’t be easy. Worse, the Field Mansion is draped under a snowstorm, trapping them with a killer determined to get more than his piece of the pie. Bernie and Libby will have to find out who the culprit is, fast, before the leftovers–and their chances of surviving–run out for good. . .
“Spritely. . . The action builds to more fireworks and a dramatic rescue.” –Publishers Weekly
“This will please Crawford’s old fans and bring in new ones.” –RT Book Reviews
“Fans of culinary cozies by Joanne Fluke and Diane Mott Davidson will enjoy discovering Crawford.” –Library Journal
And our print book suggested read for the day is:
Dark Chapter by Winnie Li:
Vivian is a cosmopolitan Taiwanese-American tourist who often escapes her busy life in London through adventure and travel. Johnny is a 15-year-old Irish teenager, living a neglected life on the margins of society. He has grown up in a family where crime is customary, violence is a necessity, and everything–and anyone–can be yours for the taking.
As Vivian looks to find her calling professionally, she delights in exploring foreign countries, rolling hillsides, and new cultures. And as a young, single woman, she has grown used to experiencing life on her own. But all of that changes when, on one bright spring afternoon in West Belfast, Vivian’s path collides with Johnny and culminates in a horrifying act of violence.
In the aftermath of the incident, both Johnny and Vivian are forced to confront the chain of events that led to the attack. Vivian must struggle to recapture the woman that she was and the woman she aspired to be, while dealing with a culture and judicial system that treats assault victims as less than human. Johnny, meanwhile, flees to the sanctity of his transitory Irish clan. But when he is finally brought to reckon for his crimes, Vivian learns that justice is not always as swift or as fair as she would hope. Inspired by true events, DARK CHAPTER is both a literary masterpiece and a riveting novel of suspense about of the dark chapters and chance encounters that can irrevocably determine the shape of our lives.
Also of note, you can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.
Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL
Online Catalog Links:
StarCat
The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc.
The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)
The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.
Freegal Music Service
This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day:
RBDigital
Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available.
About Library Apps:
You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist
Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for today.
(Note: Click on the photo of the item you’d like to request or check out)
Our digital suggestion for today downloadable audiobook:
Murder in the Mystery Suite, Book Retreat Mystery Series, Book 1 written by Ellery Adams & narrated by Johanna Parker:
WHO WOULD RESORT TO MURDER?
Tucked away in the rolling hills of rural western Virginia is the storybook resort of Storyton Hall, catering to book lovers who want to get away from it all. To increase her number of bookings, resort manager Jane Steward has decided to host a Murder and Mayhem week so that fans of the mystery genre can gather together for some role-playing and fantasy crime solving.
But when the winner of the scavenger hunt, Felix Hampden, is found dead in the Mystery Suite, and the valuable book he won as his prize is missing, Jane realizes one of her guests is an actual murderer. Amid a resort full of fake detectives, Jane is bound and determined to find a real-life killer. There’s no room for error as Jane tries to unlock this mystery before another vacancy opens up…
And our audio book (on CD) suggestion for today is:
Fairytale by Danielle Steel:
Deeply in love, Christophe and Joy Lammenais built Chateau Lammenais into a small but renowned Napa Valley winery and an idyllic home where they raised their beloved daughter, Camille, who takes on increasing responsibilities for the estate they all treasure. But after Joy’s early death from breast cancer just after Camille’s graduation from Stanford, a lonely Christophe soon falls prey to the machinations of a sophisticate from his native France–who moves, with her two reprobate sons, to consolidate her power over Camille and the property when Christophe is killed in a plane crash. With a French “fairy godmother” on the scene, however, the son of a neighboring vintner to assist, and a grand Harvest Ball on the horizon, lovely Camille may make some potent magic of her own.
Also of note, you can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.
Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL
Online Catalog Links:
StarCat
The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc.
The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)
The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.
Freegal Music Service
This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day:
RBDigital
Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available.
About Library Apps:
You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist
Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for today.
(Note: Click on the photo of the item you’d like to request or check out)
Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:
The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow:
Music and war, war and music—these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, The Prague Sonata, a novel more than a dozen years in the making.
In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript—the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens—come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. To Meta’s eye, it appears to be an authentic eighteenth-century work; to her discerning ear, the music rendered there is commanding, hauntingly beautiful, clearly the undiscovered composition of a master. But there is no indication of who the composer might be. The gift comes with the request that Meta attempt to find the manuscript’s true owner—a Prague friend the old woman has not heard from since the Second World War forced them apart—and to make the three-part sonata whole again. Leaving New York behind for the land of Dvořák and Kafka, Meta sets out on an unforgettable search to locate the remaining movements of the sonata and uncover a story that has influenced the course of many lives, even as it becomes clear that she isn’t the only one after the music’s secrets.
Magisterially evoking decades of Prague’s tragic and triumphant history, from the First World War through the soaring days of the Velvet Revolution, and moving from postwar London to the heartland of immigrant America, The Prague Sonata is both epic and intimate, evoking the ways in which individual notes of love and sacrifice become part of the celebratory symphony of life.
And our print book suggested read for the day is:
Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom Hanks:
A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor.
A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country’s civil war. A man who loves to bowl rolls a perfect game–and then another and then another and then many more in a row until he winds up ESPN’s newest celebrity, and he must decide if the combination of perfection and celebrity has ruined the thing he loves. An eccentric billionaire and his faithful executive assistant venture into America looking for acquisitions and discover a down and out motel, romance, and a bit of real life. These are just some of the tales Tom Hanks tells in this first collection of his short stories. They are surprising, intelligent, heartwarming, and, for the millions and millions of Tom Hanks fans, an absolute must-have!
Also of note, you can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.
Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL
Online Catalog Links:
StarCat
The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc.
The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)
The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.
Freegal Music Service
This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day:
RBDigital
Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available.
About Library Apps:
You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist
Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for today.
(Note: Click on the photo of the item you’d like to request or check out)
Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:
The Midnight Man, Canterbury Tales Mystery Series, Book 7 by Paul Doherty:
A Canterbury Tales medieval mystery
As Chaucer’s pilgrims shelter for the night, it’s the physician’s turn to enthral his fellow travellers with a terrifying tale. When Brother Anselm and his novice Stephen are summoned to the Church of St Michael’s, Candlewick, to perform an exorcism, the demons that plague the church appear to have been summoned by an infamous sorcerer known as the Midnight Man. But what has he unwittingly unleashed—and why? Is there any link to the disappearance of young women in the area? Before Anselm can get to the truth, he must first uncover the identity of the mysterious Midnight Man.
And our print book suggested read for the day is:
The Floating World: A Novel by C. Morgan Babst:
In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city.
As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdoré refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city’s preeminent furniture makers, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic—the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself.
This mystery is at the center of Babst’s haunting and profound novel. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city and the trauma of a disaster that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy visited on New Orleans’s most vulnerable citizens. Separately and together, each member of the Boisdoré clan must find the strength to remake home in a city forever changed.
The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told—one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.
Also of note, you can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.
Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL
Online Catalog Links:
StarCat
The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc.
The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)
The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.
Freegal Music Service
This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day:
RBDigital
Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available.
About Library Apps:
You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist
Hi everyone, this list contains a selection of titles that have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller lists in the past month.
And our Catching Up On New York Times Bestsellers posting — will come out on the first of each month.
To find out more about a book, or to request it, click on the photo of the book you’re interested in which will re-direct you to the StarCat request page*
Fiction
Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
A Column of Fire
The Cuban Affair by Nelson DeMille
Deep Freeze by John Sandford
The Girl Who Takes An Eye For An Eye by David Lagercrantz
Leopard’s Blood by Christine Feehan
Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
Mind Game by Iris Johansen
Origin by Dan Brown
Quick and Dirty by Stuart Woods
The Rooster Bar by John Grisham
Seeing Red by Sandra Brown
The Snowman by Jo Nesbo
The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur
Non-Fiction
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America’s Destiny by Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump edited by Bandy X. Lee
Endurance: A Year in Space A Lifetime of Discovery by Scott Kelly
Grant by Ron Chernow
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance
Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall
Sisters First: Stories From Our Wild And Wonderful Life by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush
Storm Before The Storm by Michael Duncan
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
We’re Going To Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton
Have a great day,
Linda, SSCL
*If you don’t have a library card you can get one at the library. Just bring a form of ID with your name and current address to the library, fill out a short form and presto — you’ll have a library card in less than five minutes!
Hi everyone, here are our recommended titles for today.
(Note: Click on the photo of the item you’d like to request or check out)
Our digital suggestion for today is the e-book:
Not A Sound by Heather Gudenkauf:
A shocking discovery and chilling secrets converge in this latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf
When a tragic accident leaves nurse Amelia Winn deaf, she spirals into a depression that ultimately causes her to lose everything that matters—her job, her husband, David, and her stepdaughter, Nora. Now, two years later and with the help of her hearing dog, Stitch, she is finally getting back on her feet. But when she discovers the body of a fellow nurse in the dense bush by the river, deep in the woods near her cabin, she is plunged into a disturbing mystery that could shatter the carefully reconstructed pieces of her life all over again.
As clues begin to surface, Amelia finds herself swept into an investigation that hits all too close to home. But how much is she willing to risk in order to uncover the truth and bring a killer to justice?
New York Times bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf has been described as “masterful” and “intelligent” and compared to Lisa Scottoline and Jodi Picoult. Introducing her most compelling heroine yet, she delivers a taut and emotional thriller that proves she’s at the top of her class.
And our print book suggested read for the day is:
In The Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende:
Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil.
In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a 60-year-old human rights scholar—hits the car of Evelyn Ortega—a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala—in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz—a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile—for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia.
Exploring the timely issues of human rights and the plight of immigrants and refugees, the book recalls Allende’s landmark novel The House of the Spirits in the way it embraces the cause of “humanity, and it does so with passion, humor, and wisdom that transcend politics” (Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post). In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page.
Also of note, you can also request items by calling the library at: 607-936-3713 x 502.
Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL
Online Catalog Links:
StarCat
The catalog of physical materials, i.e. print books, DVDs, audiobooks on CD etc.
The Digital Catalog (OverDrive)
The catalog of e-books, downloadable audiobooks and a handful of streaming videos.
Freegal Music Service
This music service is free to library card holders and offers the option to download, and keep, three free songs per week and to stream three hours of commercial free music each day:
RBDigital
Digital magazines on demand and for free! Back issues are available and you can even choose to be notified by email when the new issue of your favorite magazine is available.
About Library Apps:
You can access digital library content on PCs, Macs and mobile devices. For mobile devices simply download the OverDrive, Freegal or Zinio app from your app store to get started. If you have questions call the library at: 607-936-3713 and one of our Digital Literacy Specialists will be happy to assist
Hi everyone, here are our six musical recommendations for the week; five streaming suggestions and one recommended album on CD.
(Click on the photo to stream or request the album)
Freegal Streaming Suggestions*
Imagination by Gladys Knight & The Pips (Genre: Soul, R&B, Pop):
This album by the family group Gladys Knight and the Pips, which consisted of Gladys Knight her siblings and assorted cousins, is one of their best. The album was originally released in 1973, showcases their talents at their youthful but seasons best and contains four top ten hits: Midnight Train to Georgia, Perfect Love, I Can See Clearly Now and I’ve Got To Use My Imagination.
Other songs on the LP include: Storms of Troubled Times, Once in a Lifetime Thing, Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me and Where Peaceful Waters Flow.
Autumn by Don Ellis & His Orchestra (Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening):
Don Ellis was a versatile trumpeter who was known for work with his orchestra from the mid-sixties to the mid-seventies and for film score work which included scores for the hit films The Seven Ups and The French Connection. He unfortunately, died young in 1978, age only 44, but he left behind some great music including this upbeat, and aptly titled for our time of year, LP – Autumn.
Songs on the album include: Scratt and Fluggs, K.C. Blues, Child of Ecstasy and Indian Lady.
String Theory by Brentano String Quartet (Genre: Classical):
This album by the group that recently played a concert as part of the 2017-2018 Corning Civic Music season features music composed by Steven Mackey.
Songs include: I’ve Grown So Ugly, Troubadour Songs, on All Fours, Physical Property and Silver Spheres.
Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can by Ray Wylie Hubbard (Genre: Roots Rock, Rock, Country)
I can’t sum up this album any better than does Mark Deming in his AllMusic review — so I’m not going to try — instead – here is his review of Hubbard’s 2017 LP:
You’ve got to be a pretty great storyteller to set the Old Testament version of Creation to music and put so much of yourself into it that it sounds like you made it up. Ray Wylie Hubbard does just that on the first track of 2017’s Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can, in which he recasts the tale of Adam and Eve in his rough but compelling Texas drawl, with guitar and foot stomps transforming the story into a swampy hunk of country blues. That may be the boldest gambit on this album, but the other nine tracks are every bit as strong and engaging as the opener. Hubbard is one of the best lyricists working in America today, capable of spinning tales that draw in listeners with their vivid characters and details, and his vocal style, rough but alive, only adds to the power of his words. The arrangements on Tell the Devil work beautifully with Hubbard’s performances; this album sounds spare and smoky, like it was recorded spontaneously at 3 A.M. with bourbon and cigarettes close at hand, and the atmosphere is potent throughout. Whether he’s singing about his favorite guitar tuning, a renegade folk group from the ’60s, the wild ride of an aspiring songwriter, a night out at a dive bar, or his own colorful journeys, Hubbard makes music that’s cinematic in its depth and unique in its ability to get under your skin. At the age of 70, Ray Wylie Hubbard is making music that’s tougher, more effective, and better crafted than most artists a third his age, and Tell the Devil I’m Gettin’ There as Fast as I Can is yet another striking example of his casual brilliance. AllMusic Review by Mark Deming
Songs on the LP include: Spider, Snaker and Little Sun, The Rebellious Sons, Old Wolf and In the Times of Cold.
A Long Way From Your Heart by Turnpike Troubadours (Genre: Country, Roots Rock)
Turnpike Troubadours hail from Oklahoma and consists of Evan Felker on Vocals, Kyle Nix on fiddle, R. C. Edward on bass, Ryan Engleman on guitar and Gabe Pearson on drums.
This is the band’s fifth and it includes the songs: The Housefire, Unrung, A Tornado Warning, Pay no Rent and The Hard Way.
CD Suggestion of the Week:
Synthesize the Soul Astro-Atlantic Hypnotica from the Cape Verde Islands 1973-1988 by Various Artists
Through 18 diverse tracks, this compilation reveals how immigration from the Cape Verde Islands to Europe and the United States gave us an alternate history of the electronic music that dominated hearts and minds across the world in the late 1990s. But the story doesn’t start in a major Western cultural hub, rather in the small cluster of islands 400 miles off the Senegalese coast, and offers an unparalleled insight into the long-term cultural splendor catalyzed by migration. Largely overlooked outside the Lusophone realm, Cape Verde’s Astro-Atlantic gumbo of instrumentation and rhythm offers a timely lesson of migration’s power to produce cultural innovations ahead of it’s time. This unknown, ultra-progressive sound could not have been perfected without the induction of Cape Verde’s artistic human capital into the West.
Songs/Artists Include: NHÚ de Ped’Bia by NÓS Criola, Pedrinho by Nand, Tulipa Negra by Corpo Limpo, Manuel Gomes by Jelivrà Bo Situaçon, Val Xalino by Dança Dança T’manche and Jovino Dos Santos by Bo Ta Cool.
Videos of the Week:
Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight & The Pips
The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits by Joel Whitburn (Billboard Books. New York. 2009.)
Have a great day!
Linda, SSCL
P.S. If you have any questions about how to download or stream free music through the Freegal Music service to a desktop or laptop computer or how to download and use the Freegal Music app let us know! Drop by the library or give us a call at: 607-936-3713
*You must have a library card at a Southern Tier Library System member library to enjoy the Freegal Music Service. Your card can be from any library in the system, and the system includes all public libraries in Steuben, Chemung, Yates, Schuyler and Allegheny Counties and includes our own Southeast Steuben Count Library in Corning, New York!
Library cards are free if you live in our service area. And you can obtain a card by visiting the Circulation Desk and presenting staff with a form of ID that features your name and your current address.
2. Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North
Description: In the feature documentary Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, filmmaker Katrina Browne discovers that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. She and nine cousins retrace the Triangle Trade and gain powerful new perspectives on the black/white divide.
Producer/Director: Katrina Browne. Co-Directors: Alla Kovgan, Jude Ray. Co-Producers: Elizabeth Delude-Dix, Juanita Capri Brown.
In Traces of the Trade, Producer/Director Katrina Browne tells the story of her forefathers, the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. Given the myth that the South is solely responsible for slavery, viewers will be surprised to learn that Browne’s ancestors were Northerners. The film follows Browne and nine fellow family members on a remarkable journey which brings them face-to-face with the history and legacy of New England’s hidden enterprise.
From 1769 to 1820, DeWolf fathers, sons and grandsons trafficked in human beings. They sailed their ships from Bristol, Rhode Island to West Africa with rum to trade for African men, women and children. Captives were taken to plantations that the DeWolfs owned in Cuba or were sold at auction in such ports as Havana and Charleston. Sugar and molasses were then brought from Cuba to the family-owned rum distilleries in Bristol. Over the generations, the family transported more than ten thousand enslaved Africans across the Middle Passage. They amassed an enormous fortune. By the end of his life, James DeWolf had been a U.S. Senator and was reportedly the second richest man in the United States.
The enslavement of Africans was business for more than just the DeWolf family. It was a cornerstone of Northern commercial life. The Triangle Trade drove the economy of many port cities (Rhode Island had the largest share in the trade of any state), and slavery itself existed in the North for over 200 years. Northern textile mills used slave-picked cotton from the South to fuel the Industrial Revolution, while banks and insurance companies played a key role throughout the period. While the DeWolfs were one of only a few “slaving” dynasties, the network of commercial activities that they were tied to involved an enormous portion of the Northern population. Many citizens, for example, would buy shares in slave ships in order to make a profit.
The film follows ten DeWolf descendants (ages 32-71, ranging from sisters to seventh cousins) as they retrace the steps of the Triangle Trade, visiting the DeWolf hometown of Bristol, Rhode Island, slave forts on the coast of Ghana, and the ruins of a family plantation in Cuba. Back home, the family confronts the thorny topic of what to do now. In the context of growing calls for reparations for slavery, family members struggle with the question of how to think about and contribute to “repair.” Meanwhile, Browne and her family come closer to the core: their love/hate relationship with their own Yankee culture and privileges; the healing and transformation needed not only “out there,” but inside themselves.
The issues the DeWolf descendants are confronted with dramatize questions that apply to the nation as a whole: What, concretely, is the legacy of slavery—for diverse whites, for diverse blacks, for diverse others? Who owes who what for the sins of the fathers of this country? What history do we inherit as individuals and as citizens? How does Northern complicity change the equation? What would repair—spiritual and material—really look like and what would it take?
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DVD 382.44 TRA
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