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	<title>Peggy Ehrhart</title>
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	<description>Author of Sweet Man is Gone</description>
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		<title>Jonathan Kalb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Kalb is a great guitar teacher.  I should know, since he’s been my teacher since 2002.  He’s also a dynamite bluesman who fronts his own band on guitar, harmonica, and vocals, performing classic blues tunes as well as original compositions.  He excels as a solo performer too. 
Jonathan has been a blues guy for forty years.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/jonathan-kalb/</link>
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		<title>Heth and Jed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heth and Jed are Heth and Jed Weinstein, a guitar and bass duo who make a living busking in the New York City subway.
In 2006 they earned a spot in the MTA’s Music Under New York program out of a field of more than 400 applicants. MUNY continues to provide them with sanctioned performance locations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/heth-and-jed/</link>
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		<title>Steve Tarshis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s my great pleasure to introduce my friend and teacher, Steve Tarshis.  Here&#8217;s a picture of Steve at the launch party for Sweet Man Is Gone, where the entertainment was provided by the Steve Tarshis Trio.
Steve is a New York City guitar guy with an impressive resume: he’s got a BA in composition from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/stevetarshis/</link>
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		<title>June&#8211;Coconut Cream Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just like the blues, Caribbean music owes much of its power to African rhythms brought to the New World by slaves&#8211;in this case, slaves imported to work on the sugar cane plantations.
Rum was a by-product of the sugar-making process, and I knew this pie had to have rum. Who can think of the islands without thinking of coconuts? But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/june-coconut-cream-pie/</link>
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		<title>May&#8211;Strawberry Fields Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Strawberry Fields Forever&#8221; isn’t the blusiest of tunes, though the Beatles certainly owe a debt to the blues tradition. But please indulge me . . .
These early summer days are perfect strawberry weather, and for me strawberries always evoke those moments when time stands still and life seems unbearably sweet. There were more of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/may-strawberry-fields-pie/</link>
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		<title>April&#8211;Rhubarb Custard Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promised a custard pie this month. The blues purists will be horrified, but my blues connection is Led Zeppelin’s &#8220;Custard Pie,&#8221; in all its sexual innuendo-laden glory. In creating it, they reached back to wonderful Delta tunes like Sleepy John Estes&#8217; &#8220;Drop Down Mama,&#8221; Bukka White&#8217;s &#8220;Shake &#8216;Em On Down,&#8221; and Blind Boy Fuller&#8217;s &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/april-rhubarb-custard-pie/</link>
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		<title>March&#8211;Key (to the Highway) Lime Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
I picked this pie for March with a nod to St. Patrick’s Day because when we think of limes, we think&#8211;GREEN.
Except key limes are yellow and that’s part of the story behind Key Lime Pie. It’s an American classic, and like many great recipes is a result of making do with the ingredients at hand. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/key-to-the-highway-lime-pie/</link>
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		<title>February&#8211;Cherry Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cherry Pie is traditional for February because of Washington’s Birthday, but this month’s pie was inspired by Miles Davis too.
The ancient children’s song, &#8220;Billy Boy,&#8221; includes a verse that starts with the line, &#8220;Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy Billy Boy . . .&#8221; (Here’s a link for the song.)  
What’s the Miles Davis connection? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/february-cherry-pie/</link>
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		<title>January&#8211;Inauguration Sweet Potato Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sweet Potato Pie is reportedly our new president’s favorite pie, and it’s one of my favorites too.
I first tasted it during the student protests at San Francisco State University when I was a student there in the Sixties. Students were boycotting classes, spending their days marching with picket signs. One day a group of African-American [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/january-inauguration-sweet-potato-pie/</link>
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		<title>December&#8211;Ma Rainey’s Black-Bottom Pie</title>
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The rock and roll of the 1950’s wasn’t the first example of African-American music and dance influencing mainstream culture. When young people scandalized their parents by dancing the Charleston and the Black Bottom in the 1920’s, they were borrowing both the moves and the music from Black people.  The Black Bottom eventually became even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peggyehrhart.com/december-ma-rainey%e2%80%99s-black-bottom-pie/</link>
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