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....

Some cultural figures become adjectives before they even finish their careers. To act "Like Liam Gallagher" is to embrace a specific type of glorious, unrepentant arrogance. It is the art of standing completely still while the room around you catches fire, secure in the knowledge that you are the most interesting person present. Lewca understands this mythology perfectly. Following a life-threatening lung infection that forced a...