For Deborah Smith Pollard, the music was "in her bones." That's how Michigan's poet laureate, Melba Joyce Boyd, described her ...
If you've perhaps forgotten Aretha Franklin's instructions on how to spell "respect," who Lady Marmalade is or exactly what love has got to do with it, soul singer CeCe Teneal can help deliver a crash ...
If, in fact, there is a quiet no one hears, it still needs a translator, and that translator can very well be Danish pianist Soren Bebe and that translation is Gratitude, a rootsy triumph of mettle ...