Here’s a recently rediscovered (thank you, attic) snippet of Sax Kari, singing in his living room studio. Location is Seffner, Florida, early September 2005.
Here’s a recently rediscovered (thank you, attic) snippet of Sax Kari, singing in his living room studio. Location is Seffner, Florida, early September 2005.
“We are now driving down DeSiard Street, the stroll in Monroe, Louisiana,” wrote chitlin’ circuit pioneer Walter Barnes in 1936. DeSiard buzzed back then, at least in Barnes’ infectious, up-tempo telling. “The Red Goose Barber Shop is the place where all the boys have their grooming done…Lovely Brown’s Beauty Shop is where all the ladies […]
The vacant lot at 500 Beale Street has stories to tell. The site of a skating rink-ballroom called the Hippodrome, it was the scene of many a wild night. It figures significantly into The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll as the career launch pad for Johnny Ace, known as rock ‘n’ […]
The Lewis Ranch | 1595 Malone Rd |Nesbit, MS | (About 30 minutes south of Memphis) When I pilgrimate to Jerry Lee Lewis’s home in Nesbit, Mississippi, I’m never sure whether I want The Killer to be home or not. On one hand, it would be nice to know that I’m standing only a dozen […]
787 Hale Road Memphis, TN 38116| 901-396-9192 After cementing countless encounters with a voice that speaks directly to the genitals, in 1976, Al Green found Jesus. While Green reports his conversion happened after a visit to Disneyland, local rumors link his conversion to an incident reminiscent of the death of Henry IV, involving an adolescent […]
Elvis left the building. Many times. Although only two of Elvis’s many homes, his birthplace in Tupelo and deathplace of Graceland, get sustained publicity, the King spent much of his abbreviated life at other fine, and not so fine, Mid-South residences. Some remain, some are Gone with the Wind, but a survey of them demonstrate […]
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O my God that is fantastic. Thanks for posting.
Wish I had miles more! This was about all my 2005 digital camera could handle.
Awesome to watch this…his voice was still go good. It also showed what his presence must have been like on stage – powerful! Lastly, I love that he was still being creative at his age…a lesson to all of us.
Indeed, Nadine!
That was amazing! I hope you know that through your book, you have created an indelible memory of this man in my mind. The creative force he was makes you feel good about the capacity of humans to persevere and make an impact on their world.