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Etta James has died at 73; her NY Times obit is already up. Here’s Etta James (with Dr. John) performing “I’d Rather Go Blind.” Also, on Tuesday, Johnny Otis, great L.A. area r&b band leader, died having just reached 90. Here’s his NY Times obit. Odd coincidence: James’ first recording session, where she recorded “Roll [...]  The centenary of Guthrie’s birth is next year, and Oklahoma has only just begun to celebrate his legacy. The George Kaiser Foundation is buying Guthrie’s papers from his daughter Nora and creating a center in Tulsa devoted to his legacy. Meanwhile, the town where he was born, Okemah, finally got around to celebrating him [...] Thacker Mountain Radio’s Christmas show this year was excellent, both for music (BIll Perry, Effie Burt, the return of Duff Durrough) and readings (Theresa Starkey, Richard Howorth, Jack Pendarvis). A full two hour version will be broadcast in Oxford tomorrow and Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5, and then an hour version will [...] Before Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, Monroe was a brother act, with his brother Charlie. Music writer and music poster collector Pete Howard has acquired the above poster from an appearance by the Monroe Brothers. Fans of 50s or 60s rock, r&B, and soul will really want to check out Pete’s [...] Bill Tapia– who continued performing up until very recently– died at 103. In the performance above, he’s just past 100, filmed in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki. He was ukelele professional by aged 12, and was an important figure in Hawaiian music in the 1920s. He performed with folks like Louis Armstrong, [...] Went to Domino Records on Bayou in the Treme in New Orleans today. Totally a shrine to vinyl: I got three 45s for Scott Barretta’s juke box (“Scratch My Back” by Slim Harpo, “Working on a Coal Mine” by Lee Dorsey, and “The Things I Used To Do” by Guitar Slim. My daughter [...] Duff Durrough, leader of the house band Yalabushwackers at Thacker Mountain Radio and former member of the Tangents, has been seriously ill in the hospital in Jackson (He’s home now). There will be a benefit for him Friday at Proud Larry’s in Oxford. On the schedule are: 7:30 Rocket 88 8:30 The Minor Adjustments [...] This was tonight. After playing a few, T Model mostly looked on with delight while Robert Bilbo Walker did the show. A good time had by all. On the most recent podcast of the public radio show Sound Opinions, there is a really great interview with Bootsy Collins. They go back to the invention of funk, with Bootsy describing learning about the ONE from James Brown, and describing James Brown backstage telling the band (this, the band that recorded “Sex Machine,” [...] “What we was playin’ in the ’30s was true country music — no electric instruments, no copyrights,” he once said. “Something’d happen and someone’d write a song about it — nobody owned it, nobody’d know who wrote it. The music just told a story.” There’s a very fine obit for Wade Mainer in the [...] |
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