Paul Boggs Band - Edith’s Coming Home

9. Edith’s Coming Home: Edith Miller was the mother of the band’s first bass player. She was a single mom to two bi-racial kids and one of New York’s first Black female judges, appointed by Mayor John Lindsey in the 1970s. Edith and her husband married in the early 1950s, when interracial marriage was illegal in many parts of the United States. Despite grit and many life wins though, Edith’s last chapter was marked by Alzheimer’s and dementia. The studio version of “Edith’s Coming Home,” from the band’s 2015 album Carnival of Miracles, has appeared in documentary, In Our Right Mind (2019). Paula was able to write the song through in- person and archival transcripts of Edith Miller interviews at Columbia University. The song has a jazzy groove with an iconic bass line, banjo, and bongos among its most prominent instruments. “We can’t know the master plan, life’s a string of one-night stands, all we know is Edith’s coming home.”