This past weekend, we saw a couple of release shows all settled in at The State Room. Rather than just discuss them, I decided to head over and check one out. --- For me,... This past weekend, we saw ...

Elisa James doesn’t speak patois or discuss Jah when she’s performing onstage. “I’m not going to try to be someone I’m not,” she says. Elisa is not, for example, from Jamaica, nor does she practice ...