Favorites

Music Ryan Adams, Tori Amos, Antony and the Johnsons, Chet Baker, Matraca Berg, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Boswell Sisters, Maria Callas, Brandi Carlile, The Carter Family, June Carter Cash, Rosanne Cash, Eva Cassidy, Marshall Chapman, Patsy Cline, Sam Cooke, Ella Fitzgerald, Melody Gardot, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Caroline Herring, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Ray Lamontagne, Kate Larken, Amos Lee, Jerry Lee Lewis, Patty Loveless, Loretta Lynn, Kathy Mattea, Daniel Martin Moore, Allison Moorer, Jessye Norman, Joan Osborne, Madeleine Peyroux, Edith Piaf, Reel World String Band, Jean Ritchie, Nina Simone, Nancy Sinatra, Ben Sollee, Sufjan Stevens, Vienna Teng, Irma Thomas, Linda Thompson, Teddy Thompson, Rufus Wainwright, The Watson Twins, Gillian Welch, The White Stripes, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam

Books Angels in America, Blue Like Jazz, The Book of Common Prayer, The Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Color Purple, Coming Through Slaughter, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Dollmaker, Dreamwork, Eleanor Roosevelt: Volumes 1 & 2, Eli the Good, Fair and Tender Ladies, Firebird, The Grapes of Wrath; Horseman, Pass By; Jude the Obscure,  Leaves of Grass, Master Class, Maurice, My Antonia, A Parchment of Leaves, O Pioneers, River of Earth, Robert Kennedy: His Life, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, Stranger At the Gate, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Tongues of Angels, Traveling Mercies, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure, The Unquiet Earth, Walden, Where the Long Grass Bends, Where the Red Fern Grows, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?, The Wolfpen Poems, You Have Given Me A Country

Movies Amarcord, Angels in America, The Apostle, Beautiful Thing, City of God, Coal Miner's Daughter, The Color of Paradise, The Color Purple, Doctor Zhivago, East of Eden, Elmer Gantry, A Face in the Crowd, Grey Gardens (1976), Harlan County USA, Harold and Maude, I Confess!, Imitation of Life (1959), In the Bedroom, Into the Wild, Junebug, La Dolce Vita, Matewan, The Motorcycle Diaries, Ninotchka, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Reader, Roman Holiday, Saved!, The Shop on Main Street, Sunset Boulevard, Talk To Her, Tender Mercies; They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; To Kill A Mockingbird, The Trip to Bountiful, A Very Long Engagement, Volver, The White Ribbon, Wild River, Y Tu Mama Tambien