The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" ("Charlotte Creative Loafing") Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overloo[...]

(Berklee Guide). The purpose of this book is to explore the relationship between jazz harmony and improvisation by studying the vertical structures of chords and their function in a progression, and the horizontal or linear application of harmony to melodic improvisation. Each topic is accompanied b[...]

"Lake Wobegon U.S.A." is the eagerly anticipated successor to "News From Lake Wobegon" (one of the bestselling spoken-word audio ever) and "More News From Lake Wobegon." This collection contains 17 touching, exquisitely funny monologues from Garrison Keillor recorded during "American Radio Company" [...]

Singing greats celebrate the art of the duet from live broadcasts of "A Prairie Home Companion Duet "singing continues to be one of the hallmarks of "A Prairie Home Companion," America s favorite live radio variety show. Following in the grand tradition of the original "A Prairie Home Companion Duet[...]

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a[...]