The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

Footloose,” which is celebrating a 41th anniversary this month, was inspired by events that occurred in Elmore City, a Garvin County town.

Under the Influence understandably didn’t make much of a dent in 1992 (in fact, this reviewer, a high schooler and himself a ...