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Letters of an avant-garde icon available to the public for the first time

Is it ethical for psychiatrists to call a president a narcissist? From Goldwater to Trump, Martin-Joy reviews the debate.

John Jackson grew up in rural Virginia, listening to the older musicians around him and the blues stars whose records he heard on his family's wind-up phonograph. For a while in his youth, he played at country dances, but mostly he just picked the guitar and banjo for his own amusement, and his tastes ranged from the Piedmont blues of Blind Blake, Josh White and Blind Boy Fuller to the hillbilly yodels of Jimmie Rodgers and an old-time banjo style that reached back to the 19th century. This DVD presents the documentary An American Songster by Renalto Tonelli (1986), a 1999 appearance by Jackson as the guest of Ralph Litwin on his show Horses Sing None of It, and two final songs recorded at the University of Washington in 1970.