Into the endless and often tedious debate about authenticity and artifice now strolls Pokey LaFarge. He’s a long-faced, sad-eyed galoot who looks like he stepped out of a tintype, handsome in a kind ...

It is possible that Pokey LaFarge has mastered the art of time travel. He seems to have arrived in 2018 from the 1930s — maybe by way of the 1950s — playing jaunty riverboat swing like it’s the height ...