David Freeland is the author of the books Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudville: Excavating Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure (2009), and Ladies of Soul (2001). His work has appeared in New York Press, No Depression, American Songwriter, Relix, Living Blues, South Dakota Review, Blues Revue, Goldmine, and Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians. He lives in New York.