Monday, December 14, 2009

Bob Dylan and Big Joe Williams With Victoria Spivey and John Hammond NYC 1962

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Left to right in the above photo: Bob Dylan, Victoria Spivey, John Hammond, and Big Joe Williams. From the album Three Kings and a Queen. P...

Big Joe Williams BABY PLEASE DON'T GO

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These are photos made in Crawford, Mississippi after a funeral. Big Joe came by and played for us after the wake. These photos were taken...
Sunday, December 13, 2009

Ivory Joe Hunter Since I Met You Baby

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Ivory Joe Hunter was one of Elvis Presley's favorite singers. Ivory Joe Hunter was born in Kirbyville, Texas. My family lived in Kirbyvi...

Down In Mississippi Jimmy Reed Old School Even the Boll Weevils Wear Overalls

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Here is Jimmy Reed singing Down in Mississippi (where even the boll weevils wear overalls). I saw him once in Columbus, Mississippi in 1961....

Jerry Lee Lewis Middle Age Crazy Arrested After Trying to Break in Graceland To see Elvis

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Jerry Lee actually did have long blond hair like in the picture above in 1958. I saw him in the Fall of 1958 in Hattiesburg, Miss. It was a...
Saturday, December 12, 2009

Close Shave in Rome Italy Dinner Opera Singers Barber of Seville

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That is me in Rome in June of 2007. I was called up on stage to be the Patsy. Everyone seemed to get a big kick out of it. These singers are...

John Coltrane at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco April 1962

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I saw John Coltrane at the Jazz Workshop in April of 1962. He played the song My Favorite Things on his soprano saxophone shown in the pict...