Lyle Lovett
Lyle Lovett
Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer. Active since 1980, he has recorded 13 albums and released 25 singles to date, including his highest entry, the number 10 chart hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, “Cowboy Man”. Wikipedia

Tom Corcoran
Location – Key West FL
Tom Corcoran
Florida author Tom Corcoran’s “Guava Moon Revenge” is the eighth and most recent novel in the Alex Rutledge Series. His books, which include “Octopus Alibi,” “Air Dance Iguana,” “Hawk Channel Chase,” and “The Quick Adios,” are set primarily in the Florida Keys. Tom also recently wrote a series spin-off mystery, “Crime Almost Pays,” which features the private eyes known as “The Bumsnoops.”

Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples
Mavis Staples is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer, actress, and civil rights activist. She has recorded and performed with her family’s band The Staple Singers and also as a solo artist. Staples was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Blues Hall of Fame in 2017. Wikipedia

Mark Erelli
Mark Erelli
is an American singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and touring folk musician from Reading, Massachusetts who earned a master’s degree in evolutionary biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst before pursuing a career in music. Wikipedia
Latest recording — Blindsided
“(Blindsided) soars on the wings of jangly guitars, heartfelt vocals and soulful harmony lines…Yep, that’s the sweet spot right there. And there’s enough of it to make this album matter.”
–The Associated Press
“Erelli is a throwback of sorts, a foursquare acoustic songwriter in an age of digital audio workstations. For ‘Blindsided’ he has amped up with a superb band…a rock ‘n’ soul set of songs with friction” –Boston Globe

Book Club Reads
Book Club Reads
Culled from the favorites of three East Coast Book Clubs.
Please write to us with your book club favorites – info@roamingthearts.com
Recent Book Club Favorites:
Theo of Golden – Allen Levi
Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Fifteen Dogs – Alexis Andre
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
How to Read a Book – Monica Wood
The Safe Keep – Yael Van Der Wouden
The Vesper Wilds – Lauren Groff
Our 2020 Covid List – In case you missed them:
| American Dirt- Jeannine Cummins |
| Apeirogon-Colum McCann |
| Ask Again, Yes –Mary Beth Keane |
| Behold The Dreamers –Imbolo Mbue |
| Bel Canto –Ann Patchett |
| Born A Crime- Trevor Noah |
| Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman |
| Fates and Furfies – Lauren Groff |
| In The Midst of Winter – Isabel Allende |
| Mrs. Hemingway – Naomi Wood |
| Pachinko –Min Jin Lee |
| Tattooist Artist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris |
| The Extraordinary life of Sam Hell- Robert Dugoni |
| The Great Alone – Kristin Hannah |
| The Great Believers –Rebecca Makkai |
| The Inn At Lake Devine –Elinor Lipman |
| The Man with a Load of Mischief –Martha Grimes |
| The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey |
| The Storyteller’s Secret – Sejal Badani |
| This Tender Land-William Kent Krueger |
Dustbowl Revival
Dustbowl Revival
Check out the Sway at Home music festivals on youtube and and on their web site.
Over the past few years, The Dustbowl Revival has been making a name for itself with a vibrant mix of vintage Americana sounds. Critics have proclaimed that this eclectic eight-piece “would have sounded utterly at home within the hallowed confines of Preservation Hall in New Orleans’ French Quarter” (Los Angeles Times) and their “upbeat, old-school, All-American sonic safaris exemplify everything shows should be: hot, spontaneous, engaging and, best of all, a pleasure to hear”
