Each spine is a wee marquee, tempting me to experience the stories and the soundtracks, again and again. It’s the books about women, though, that glow. I also see ego trip’s Book of Rap Lists (1992), co-written by a genius collective that includes my husband Elliott Wilson. My friend Benjamin Meadows-Ingram’s 2015 Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap is next to The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal from Mark Ribowsky, which is next to the prescient Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1992) from genius music and cultural critic Greg Tate. I have an essay in in there myself, about the beloved rap duo Gang Starr. I also see Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap (1995), edited by Evelyn McDonnell and Ann Powers. So, yes: my typically neat and citrus-scented space houses stacks on teetering and seemingly unorganized stacks of tomes about musical lives-the sound and the fury.Ī glance at a dining room shelf reveals Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz by Stewart Nicholson and Her Name Is Barbra: An Intimate Portrait of the Real Barbra Streisand by Randall Riese-both from 1993. I am a longtime music writer and editor and the host/creator of the Spotify Original podcast Black Girl Songbook-a show that centers stories of Black women who make music of all kinds. Some of them are even written by my friends.
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