March 15th, 2009 by karen
In 1991 I recorded my own cassette album (yes, cassette) featuring seven songs I wrote under the name Karen Metcalf. The title was Don’t Let it Show. A disc jockey at Louisville radio station WLOU, then secular, was gracious enough to play one of my songs (I’m the One) on the air for me. He [...]
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March 4th, 2009 by karen
There’s a reason why the lyrics to the “queen of soul’s” (Aretha Franklin) song Think has been pulled up 52,516 times. Apparently, we still need to hear them. The Chris Brown/Rihanna beat down story couldn’t make the point more clear. By now I’m sure you’ve heard some version of the alleged fight between the hip hop [...]
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