Who was the first Christian Contemporary Artist? Playing the role of the late-night and laid-back DJ in this playlist, I stroll through the music history of the early 70s and mid-60s to discover the surprising answer. Featured throughout is the album of the group pictured above, with whom I had an interesting childhood connection. (Download free JRadio app [iphone] [android] for best mobile phone performance.)

Ten years of my life as publisher of the Chattanooga Fax gets summed up here in an interview with local talk radio legend Jeff Styles, who also served as a columnist for Chattanooga Fax in its final years. Another columnist, attorney Robert Barnes, is now one of the more prominent defense attorneys and political pundits in the country. We also published some great cartoons over the years, compiled in a book with a Foreword from Senator Bob Corker.

As founder of the RiverCity Jazz Association, I seized the moment in 2000 to produce this CD while all the cats were still around and hanging out at the ever-so-memorable Jazz Junction on Main Street. Some musicians are gone and the Jazz Junction is no longer. Read more here and from my comments on each song at the SoundCloud playlist.

The Cherokee Princes: Mixed marriages and murders - the true story behind the Trail of Tears

Eric Hoffer Award winner.

“A page-turner.”
—Gordon Wetmore, President, Portrait Society of America

” Clear but compelling style of writing.”
—U.S. Senator Bob Corker, Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee