To listen to Stevie Hawkins’ take on "A Song For You" is to have a conversation with a ghost in a dimly lit room after the show has ended. Hawkins, long the rhythmic engine for the song's originator Leon Russell, steps from behind the drum kit to the microphone, and the space between these two roles compresses decades into four and a half minutes....

Los Angeles is full of stories, but none of them are nearly as interesting as Edie Yvonne's. The journey that Edie has taken has been anything but normal. She made her movie begin with Chloe Sevigny in "Kitty," which was shown at Cannes. However, in just six months, she has won our hearts not with her on-screen persona but with six audible songs that are powerful,...