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A friend of mine mentioned Jerry Wexler to me. I said who? Here’s what he wrote me - Bad week for R&B, what with Isaac Hayes and Jerry Wexler dying. Wexler was THE reason that Atlantic Records and Stax Records were different from Motown. Twenty essential Jerry Wexler recordings 1. Professor [...]
In a town famous for its piano virtuosos--Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Eddie Bo, Professor Longhair, James Booker, and even Harry Connick, Jr. (all New Orleans natives)--Henry Butler is a giant. Though his eclectic mixture of funk, blues, jazz, pop, schmaltz, rock and standards isn't everyone's cup of tea, his musical genius is legendary. Musicians and fans both hail Butler as the next piano superstar...
The passing of Bo Diddley got me on a hardcore listening jag. Doesn’t take much to get me back on Bo, and there are several other blues and quasi-blues dudes — Elmore James, ZZ Top, Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Professor Longhair, James Booker — that I go back to whenever I need to reset my [...]
There are a handful of performances slated in the next several weeks that could easily slip through the cracks - shows by creative souls who don't always fill auditoriums but deserve our open ears and minds.
You can't get away from Professor Longhair, a.k.a. ‘Fess. Piano freaks who appreciate all players and who don't just specialize in jazz or classical will tell you it's a dead heat between him, Ray Charles, and Booker T. Jones for the title of Greatest American Keyboard Player of All Time — and by “greatest” I [...]
Anyone in the General Assmebly care to comment on what the hold up might be? A “whites only” sign was still hanging on the precinct house water fountain in 1964 when James Booker joined the suburban College Park police force. He soon learned it wasn't the only thing off limits to Georgia ’s new black recruits. Until [...]
There’s a look that Black men of a certain age have. It is somewhat akin to the “thousand mile stare” of war veterans. It may be tinged with anything from sorrow to determination. It is usually accompanied by a silence that is usually best left uninterrupted, except by those who know what it holds back, [...]
A "whites only" sign was still hanging on the precinct house water fountain in 1964 when James Booker joined the suburban College Park police force. He soon learned it wasn't the only thing off limits to Georgia's new black recruits.
When James Booker joined the College Park, Ga., police force in 1964, a "whites only" sign still hung on the precinct house water fountain. He soon learned it wasn't the only thing off limits to Georgia's new black recruits.
A "whites only" sign was still hanging on the precinct house water fountain in 1964 when James Booker joined the suburban College Park police force. He soon learned it wasn't the only thing off limits to Georgia 's new black recruits.
A “whites only” sign was still hanging on the precinct house water fountain in 1964 when James Booker joined the suburban College Park police force. He soon learned it wasn't the only……Read more
There is reaction coming out of Clayton County over the situation with the school board the likelihood of the school system losing accreditation:If Clayton loses its accreditation, students will no longer be eligible for HOPE scholarships and will find it...
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