Chief Keef, Courtesy. As RIFF Rewind’s ongoing Black History Month comes up on the end of its second month these column topics are getting tougher and tougher. My first thought was to celebrate the second attempt at baseball’s Opening Day by highlighting how recent broken color barriers have been…

Peter Frampton Band, “All Blues.” Peter Frampton has influenced the identity of loud guitar music to the point where people less than half his age have probably inadvertently heard his hits. When you’ve helped write the hard rock rulebook and collaborated with David Bowie, where do you go next?…

Josh Rosenthal’s daughters Emma (L) and Hazel with William Faulkner; not interested in ice cream. Oxford, Miss. In June, I took my daughters on a musical journey to New Orleans, all around Mississippi, Memphis and Nashville. We ate praline bacon, went to Preservation Hall, saw Degas’ house, Fats Domino’s Katrina-waterlogged piano,…