La Cave

The Advent of Pop Music in the Midst of Used Church Furniture

Note to readers: We are away this week where internet connectivity is sketchy, at best. We will return with more in a few days.

Memories of music inevitably bring me back to Cleveland.

I grew up there during a time of political innovation [Carl Stokes was, in 1968, the first African-American elected mayor of a major American city], an active and inquiri…