4 Ergebnisse.

In Prince and Purple Rain, acclaimed Prince authority Andrea Swensson takes a deep dive into the late artist’s most iconic album with a beautiful, slipcased gift book.

The emotional, epic story of James “Cornbread” Harris—a self-proclaimed “blessed dude” and one of Minneapolis’s most influential musicians From the heart of the Minnesota blues comes the story of James “Cornbread” Harris Jr., the songwriter, pianist, and consummate bluesman whose seventy years making music helped to shape the Minneapolis Sound. “I am a blessed dude, ” Cornbread tells Andrea Swensson, taking us along on his musical journey from...

The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound.

Andrea Swensson is an author, radio host, and music journalist. She hosts a weekly program about the Minnesota music scene, The Local Show, at Minnesota Public Radio’s 89.3 The Current and contributes to the Local Current Blog. Prior to joining MPR, she was the music editor at City Pages, where she founded the AAN AltWeekly Award-winning Gimme Noise music blog.