Soulsville U.S.A.: The Story Of Stax Records (Paperback)
Yea? Nay?
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Buffista Music III: The Search for Bach
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Barb - Aug 21, 2008 9:16:50 am PDT #9110 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
Barb - Aug 21, 2008 9:20:06 am PDT #9111 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
Also noting that the South was not monolithic. In the Carolinas, you're going to see a big beach music scene. In the Delta area of Mississippi, you're probably going to see more Memphis and possibly New Orleans influence.
Exactly-- which is why I was specific in saying Delta region (I did say that, right? I know I meant to.)
Fred Pete - Aug 21, 2008 9:27:02 am PDT #9112 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
That's why I mentioned the Delta, Barb. My experience is New Orleans and North Carolina.
If you're looking for soul/R&B in New Orleans at the time, you want to look at Irma Thomas. She was remembered very, very fondly in the oldies venues when I was there (early '80s) but had never really broken out nationally.
Barb - Aug 21, 2008 9:32:29 am PDT #9113 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
If you're looking for soul/R&B in New Orleans at the time, you want to look at Irma Thomas.
Oooh. ::making note::
Just to give some sort of context-- the MS I'm working on starts in late '64 in New York, moves to L.A., specifically Malibu, throughout the first half of '65, and then there's a road trip which is the section that's giving me fits, from L.A. to Palm Beach-- one of the characters has some very specific memories attached to having been in Mississippi as a Civil Rights activist. Since music can add such huge atmospheric impact, plus act as a trigger, it's really important to me that I get this part of it right, you know?
Tom Scola - Aug 21, 2008 9:35:53 am PDT #9114 of 10003
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Second graders raise money to save Coltrane's house: [link]
DavidS - Aug 21, 2008 9:40:48 am PDT #9115 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Well, Irma Thomas had a local hit with "Wish Someone Would Care" in 1964. She also did the original version of "Time Is On My Side" that the Stones covered.
The big civil rights anthem of the soul era was Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."
That delta region was particularly fertile for the variety of its music. If you draw a circle that covers both Memphis and Little Rock you're going to have musicians as varied as Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Aretha Franklin, Muddy Waters, Conway Twitty, Charlie Rich and Justin Timberlake all born within that circle.
On the blues side Sonny Boy Williamson played regularly on the King Biscuit Flour Hour.
DavidS - Aug 21, 2008 9:41:31 am PDT #9116 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Second graders raise money to save Coltrane's house: [link]
Awww, little jazzbos.
Barb - Aug 21, 2008 9:45:19 am PDT #9117 of 10003
“Not dead yet!”
The big civil rights anthem of the soul era was Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come."
The Impressions' "People Get Ready" too--
Dana - Aug 21, 2008 9:53:03 am PDT #9118 of 10003
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I just heard The Decembrists used in an AT&T ad. Huh.
Hayden - Aug 21, 2008 9:54:28 am PDT #9119 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I remember that Soulsville book being pretty dry, Barb.