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Classic Posters: The Interviews Book One

Year
2011

Ann Arbor Folk and Blues: The Scene in the 1960s and 1970s

Year
2015

Ann Arbor Blues Festivals and More

Year
2019

Inscape: The Beauty of Brenton Wood

Day
3
Month
December
Year
2014

I can't imagine raising kids without some Brenton Wood's tunes. My kids all loved them and asked to hear them again and again. I feel the same way. My family was all about the Oogum-Boogum Song. My own favorite is "Gimme Little Sign."

Friends of the Sixties

I often wonder about my interest in seeking out wise older men to learn from.  Perhaps it is because, although I had both grandmothers, I never had a grandfather, on either side.  How I would know what I was missing, I have no idea.  But perhaps there is something in there that goes way back in the human race that wants to have a grandfather, someone separate from one’s father with perhaps more life wisdom, some kindness, and hopefully a little time on their hands, enough for a grandkid or two.

Inscape: Chuck Berry - Nothin' Comes from Nowhere

Day
10
Month
December
Year
2014

When I look for the birth of Rock 'n' Roll, I don't find just one artist, but more like a long braid of influences tied together, overlapping, with one strand tied into another. Of course there is Little Richard, Fats Domino, and Chuck Berry. And I am not forgetting Elvis or Jerry Lee Lewis, but to me the roots of rock are found in Black music. One of my very favorites is Chuck Berry, whom I actually met once at a late-night party in Berkeley, California in 1964. We were both in the back hall of a house, he going one way, I another.

Inscape: The Inimitable Big Walter Horton

Day
7
Month
December
Year
2014

Inscape: The Incredible Barbara Lewis

Day
6
Month
December
Year
2014

Barbara Lewis is from the Ann Arbor area where I grew up. She was born in Salem Township, part of Washtenaw County, and just outside Ann Arbor. Lewis was managed by Ollie McLaughlin, whom we all knew. McLaughlin not only produced Barbara Lewis, but also Dion Jackson, who was a friend of ours. And our one-time manager Hugh "Jeep" Holland and McLaughlin worked together in the same Ann Arbor scene. Pop- group manager Jeep Holland met his match in our group, the Prime Movers Blues Band. 

Groove and Blues in Jazz

The Albums of Hank Locklin

Hank Locklin (Lawrence Hankins Locklin), one of country music's great tenors, was born February 15, 1918 in the small town of McLellan located in the lumbering district of the Florida Panhandle. The youngest son of four children, he went to a one-room schoolhouse and was musical even as a young child. Hank was injured at the age of eight in an accident and the long recovery process was the time when he first begin to learn music. Although interested in the guitar early on, it was not until his mid-teens that he really began to master that instrument.