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The Jeannie C. Riley Song Book, Shelby Singleton Music, Inc., 1969
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"In a Moment of Weakness”
From his 1969 debut album Heart & Soul. One of New Orleans’ finest. He’d been kicking around the R&B scene for most of the decade, scoring the odd hit here and there (including one penned by the future Dr. John, Mac Rebbenack). He cut a version of the pop standard “Release Me” showcasing his multi-octave range, which led to this album on former Sun Records hustler Shelby Singleton’s International label. The record’s the best place to start if anyone’s interested in Adams, as it also includes his signature tune “Reconsider Me.”
Country funk, daddy. Dig it.
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The Dylann Roof case- In Depth
I DO NOT SUPPORT. THIS IS INFORMATIONAL!
Pls reblog incase I get trmed!
Dylann was born April 3rd 1994 to mother Amelia and father Franklin with 2 sisters Amber and Morgan. During early childhood his parents would divorce and his father would later remarry. His stepmother accused his father of abüse. He would beg his step mother to let him live with her but she wasn’t able to. Dylann would be described to have obsessive compulsive tendencies with germs. In middle school he would stop caring about school and started smoking weed and drinking vodka. In nine years he would have attended seven schools. In 2010 he would drop out of Highschool and continue playing video games and smoking weed and drinking.
In 2015 he was caught with an invalid prescription for suboxone at a mall to which he was banned from for a year. Later that year he was caught loitering in the mall to which they searched his car finding a forearm grip for a AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and six unloaded magazines capable of holding 40 rounds each but was let off it was legal in the state. Roofs Suboxone charge was mishandled and a system error took it as a misdemeanour instead of a felony. Which would have possibly prohibited him from purchasing the firearm.
Later Dylann would look into the Trayvon Martin case and from an unknown article concluded Zimmerman was in the right. He then fell down a rabbit hole of black on white crime and misinformation. He then found 4chan and would find even more misinformation and hard right ideologies Dylann states he hasn’t been the same since that day. Which leads to his manifesto titled ‘The last Rhodesian’ Rhodesia being the African state founded in 1965 ran by primary Europeans and a white supr3macy ideology before being abolished in 1979. The term now sticks with white supremac!sts like Dylann had became, as he also used the flag on his jacket. In preparation before the attack he looked up black churches and found the Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church and would scout the area and ask around about mass times.
June 15th 2015 somewhere around 8:00pm Dylann entered the church, once he did he was greeted by Rev.Pinckney and given a bible to study with. Roof was sat next to Pinckney as the study continued. As the study closed and the ending pray started Roof stood up and pulled out his Gl0ck 41 .45 calibre handgûn and began sh00ting. Killing Pinckney first. Then 26 year old Tywanza Sanders stood up to plead with Dylann before he said ‘I have to do it. You r4p3 our women and you’re taking over our country and you have to go’ he then wh0re and k!lled Sharonda Singleton, Dr. Daniel L. Simmons, Ethel Lee Lance, Cynthia Hurd, Myra Tompson and Tywanza Sanders. Dylann would reload 5 times that day. Polly Shepherd was spared when he asked her if he shot her yet to which she replied no he then told her ‘good cause we need someone to survive because I’m gonna sh00t myself and you’ll be the only survivor. He then turned the gûn on himself realizing he was out of ammo. He then left the church to the surprise there wasn’t anyone outside. The next day the police confirmed the gûnman was 21 year old Dylann Roof with witnesses reporting they saw him drive towards Shelby, a town close to Charleston. At 10:44am Roof was arrested at a traffic stop in Shelby where it was then confirmed he worked alone.
Five days after the sh00ting the grand jury announced that Roof was being indicted for 33 federal charges.
12 counts hate crime against black people
12 counts obstructing the exercise of religion
9 counts mûrd3r using a firearm.
On June 6th Roof reportedly did not want to be trialed by jury and instead let the judge decide if he was guilty and if the d3ath penalty was reasonable. August 23rd Roofs lawyers called the motion of d3ath penalty unconstitutional and asked to reject the motion. On September 1st an on camera hearing was held in case of outbursts. December 7th 2016 the trial started. During a survivor statement Roofs mom collapsed as she had a heart attack. After 3 days of the trial FBI played a video on which he admitted to laughing and drinking while describing to friends how he’d sh00t the church. To which his friend didn’t report to police and said he was drunk and took his keys and gl0ck that was on him. After 2 hours the jury found him guilty on all 33 charges. Roof wanting to plead guilty but told not to by lawyers.
January 10th 2027 Roof was sentenced to d3ath penalty, and d3ath by lethal injection.
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NOTE: if I get anything wrong please tell me! This was from an old project I had.
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Shelby Mustang GT500. - source Faye Singleton - via Team Shelby Club - Official Group.
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So this has been something that's been asked for a few times, so after a long times work, here we have it! A hypothetical voice cast for the characters of Autobot Academy. If there's a character you don't see, it's as we don't want to rush figuring out a character. We may update this list in the future, however it'll be in our own time, so we won't be taking any questions about specific missing characters. And hey, if you have your own voices that don't match up with these, then feel free to stick with that!
Autobots
Yuri Lowenthal - Hot Shot/Excellion II/DF Hot Shot/Ben Tennyson
Ashley Eckstein - Lightbright/Maxima/DF Lightbright
Tara Platt - Artillery/Maelstrom/ CG-11272017
ThunderPsyker - Bumblebee/Mjolnir
Morgan Garrett - Arcee/Diabla/Spidarcee
Nick “Lanipator” Landis - Rampage/Shockaract/Straxus
Brianna Knickerbocker - Transmutate/Transmutate X/Transmutate IX
Sam Vincent - Side Burn/Darkburn
Rick “Rice Pirate” Lauer - X-Brawn/Wrenchit
Chris Hackney - Mach Alert/Infernox/Lio Convo/Galva Convoy
Tiya Sicrar - Moonracer
Christine Marie Cabanos - Nightracer/Wipe-Out
Ashley Johnson - Glyph
Kanono - Tap-Out/AlbinoBug
Lizzie Caplin - Tremor/Shockblast
Erika Ishii - Sonar/Noisemaze
DoktorApplejuice - Armorhide/Armorbreak
Josh Keaton - Sideswipe/Firebreaker/Sunstreaker/Mismatch
Alejandro Saab - Steeljaw/Shatter-Pattern/Phantomjaw/Hellhound
Chris Miller - Thunderhoof
Sumalee Montano - Lodestar
Max Mittelan - Hosehead/Contagion
Sam Regal - Bomb-Burst
Kyle McCarley - Longshot
Ben Diskin - Misfire/Missilefire
Lucas Gilbertson - Saber/Dark Saber/Devcon/DF Devcon
Li Ming Hu - Hightail/Ravager
Mike Ginn - Gridlock/Ravager
Erica Mendez - Galaxy Flare
Michelle Ang - Riptide
Vanessa Marshal - Strongarm
Jill Harris - Nautica/DF Nautica
Courtney Ford - Muzzle
Nicolas Cantu - Wasp/DF Waspinator
Erin Fitzgerald - Convex
Archie Kao - Roadblock
Connor Kelley - Sky High
Haven Kendrick - Hot Rodimus/Raze
Michelle Yeoh - Windblade
Shannon McCormick - Rung
Elizabeth Maxwell - Chromia
Edward James Olmos - Fortress Maximus
Travis Willingham - Rollout
Andrew Francis - Scorch
John DiMaggio - Kup/Nitro Zeus/Leadfoot
Kyle Herbert - Star Convoy/Orion Pax/Toxitron
Mark Bonnar - Starscream
Paul McGann - Perceptor
Jake Johnson - Devaron
Herself Sarah Wiedenheft - Saperion/Arcrunner
Debra Wilson - Elita-1
Nicolas Cage - Overload
Nathan Fillion - Silverstreak/Killstreak
Ian MacKellen - Alpha Trion
Maximals
Tara Strong - Slash
Bryce Papenbrooke - Leobreaker
Matt Mercer - Bigfight/Death Convoy
Tom Gliblis - Break
Aleks Le - Stampy
Jack DeSana - Whoop-Kong
Roger Craig Smith - Bound Rogue
Charlie Day - Rattrap
Protectobots
Ashly Burch - Whirl
Heather Watson - Minerva
Aerialbots
Ratana - Stiletto
Cherami Leigh - Skyburst/Stormclash
Rachel Robinson - Surge
David B. Mitchell - Silverbolt
Axellerators
Jamie Chung - Flare-Up
Ron Botitta - Amp
Decepticons
Jason Marnocha - Megatron
Isaac C Singleton Jr. - Soundwave
Kathleen Delaney - Thunderblast
Vincent D'nofrio - Motormaster
Laura Bailey - Drag Strip
Shelby Rabara - Wildrider
David Kaye - Gnashteeth
Marc "Ganxingba" Soskin - Thundercracker
Ian Hanlin - Skywarp
Ryan Reynolds - Deadlock
Kaley Cuoco - Flamewar
Todd Haberkorn - Stonecrusher
Maurice LaMarche- Cryotek
Josh Powell - Onslaught
Corey Burton - Shockwave
Sylvester McCoy - “Doc”
JK Simmons - Horntrap
Resistance
Cameron Monaghan - Beta Maxx
Neo-Maximals
LaMonica Garret - Great Convoy
Peter Dinklage - King Atlas
Lydia Leonard - Black Convoy
Sam Witwer - Venator
Others
Colin Baker - Jhiaxus
Billy West/Michael Dorn - Dion/Umbra Convoy
Greg Cipes - Carjack
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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: More Fiction Recommendations
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Earl "Trey" Singleton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, at 17, he is ready to leave his overbearing parents and their expectations behind.
In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death.
Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
"Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good."
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US.
Less roves across the "Mild Mild West," through the South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo - a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hat costume of a true "Unitedstatesian"... with varying levels of success, as he continues to be mistaken for either a Dutchman, the wrong writer, or, worst of all, a "bad gay."
We cannot, however, escape ourselves--even across deserts, bayous, and coastlines. From his estranged father and strained relationship with Freddy, to the reckoning he experiences in confronting his privilege, Arthur Less must eventually face his personal demons.
This is the second volume in the “Arthur Less” series.
Rosewater by Liv Little
Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in south London. But several things in her life have gone terribly wrong. She's estranged from her family; is failing to make it as a poet; and has just been evicted from her social housing. As fierce and independent as she is, even Elsie must admit that being a carefree 28-year-old is proving difficult--and that she's running out of options.
Juliet, her best friend since childhood, has always been Elsie's lifeline. So even though they haven't spoken in months, Elsie is soon snuggled up on Juliet's couch, back at home among the mismatched cushions and knit blankets.
Between their reruns of Drag Race and nights smoking on the balcony, something surprising begins to glimmer in Elsie's heart. And as the days turn into weeks and then months, this feeling quickly becomes too fierce to ignore. Will Elsie be brave enough to open herself up to love?
The Fake by Zoe Whittall
After the death of her wife, Shelby is suffering from prolonged grief. She’s increasingly isolated, irritated by her family’s stoicism and her friends’ reliance on the toxic positivity of self-help culture. Then, in a grief support group, she meets Cammie, who gives her permission to express her most hopeless, hideous feelings. Cammie is charismatic and unlike anyone Shelby has ever met. She’s also recovering from cancer and going through several other calamities. Shelby puts all her energy into helping Cammie thrive—until her intuition tells her that something isn’t right.
Gibson is fresh from divorce, almost forty, and deeply depressed. Then he falls in love with Cammie. Not only is he having the best sex of his life with a woman so attractive he’s stunned she even glanced his way, he feels truly known for the first time in his life. But Gibson’s friends are wary of Cammie, and eventually he, too, has to admit that all the drama in Cammie’s life can feel a bit over the top.
When Gibson and Shelby meet, they realize Cammie’s stories don’t always add up. In fact, they’re far from the truth. But what kind of a person would lie about having cancer? And what does it say about Shelby and Gibson that they fell for it?
#fiction#LGBTQIA#lgbtq books#lgbtq characters#LGBTQA#pride month#Books for Pride#Library Books#Book Recommendations#book recs#reading recommendations#Reading Recs#TBR pile#tbr#tbrpile#to read#Want To Read#freedom to read#Booklr#book tumblr#book blog#library blog
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Le Killer est mort, vive le Killer : le podcast hommage à Jerry Lee Lewis débriefé
(Attention, spoiler : ce débriefing comprend des indications précises sur le contenu de la playlist du podcast.)
Il était le dernier géant, le survivant de l’Odyssée du Rock, l'ultime légende du rock'n'roll des années 50 encore en vie. Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Johnny Cash, Gene Vincent, Fats Domino, Little Richard : il les a tous côtoyés... et tous enterrés. Jerry Lee Lewis s'en est allé, nous laissant un patrimoine artistique d'une richesse et d'une profondeur insoupçonnées. C'est sous le coup de l'émotion de l'annonce de son décès que fut réalisé The Killer Is Dead, Long Live The Killer, mon hommage spontané à Jerry Lee. Jerry Lee, le pionnier, Jerry Lee, le musicien influent (et comment !), Jerry Lee, le rebelle. Jerry Lee, le provocateur né. Jerry Lee, l’idole. Jerry Lee, l’homme aux mille polémiques. Produire ce podcast était un besoin afin de commencer le processus de deuil de cet artiste dont la musique m'a accompagné depuis la petite-enfance. Le Killer est mort, vive le Killer ! Personne ne pourra nous enlever ses quarante (40 !) albums studio.
C'est mon père qui m'avait appris l'existence de Jerry Lee Lewis et de ses chansons électriques explosives : Great Balls Of Fire, Whole Lot Of Shakin’ Going On et Crazy Arms passaient sur le tourne-disque de la maison familiale. On avait aussi l’un de ses 33 tours de musique country (She Still Comes Around, 1969) mais on l’écoutait moins (j’y viendrai beaucoup plus tard…). C'est aussi mon père qui m'a appris son passage de vie à trépas (à 87 ans) alors que la nouvelle venait à peine de tomber sur les prompteurs des rédactions. La boucle de la transmission père-fils était bouclée nous concernant. Il me restait à transmettre à nouveau, à utiliser mon média indépendant pour offrir aux prophanes et curieux une porte d'entrée dans l'univers envoûtant et complexe de celui qui fut surnommé le Tueur de Memphis.
Produit en l'espace de quelques heures, #SublimationIsJerryLee met d'entrée de jeu et en priorité l'accent sur les prestations scéniques de Lewis. Car s'il y a bien un endroit où le chanteur et pianiste américain était redoutable et, disons-le, sur-performant, c'était la scène. L'expression "bête de scène" aurait pu être inventée pour décrire ses concerts survoltés. Déchainé, incontrôlable, comme possédé, maltraitant son piano de toutes les manières imaginables, en frappant les touches avec ses pieds et y boutant même le feu sur scène (littéralement, tel Hendrix avec sa guitare) à au moins une reprise.
Le podcast s'ouvre donc avec les premières minutes du concert légendaire au Star Club d'Hambourg en 1964; ce même Star Club où les Beatles firent leurs armes à la dure quelques années plus tôt. Si vous voulez savoir ce que "mettre leu feu" en concert signifie, ces trois passages live vous en apportent la réponse. Son interprétation a cent à l’heure de I Got A Woman de Ray Charles semble proche de déclencher une émeute chez les teddyboys allemands, loubards en cuir noir et marins ivres amassés dans le club.
On fait ensuite un détour vers l'un des albums les plus importants de sa discographie studio : le bien nommé Memphis Beat, paru en 1966, dont on écoute deux extraits (Memphis Beat et The Urge). Paru sur le label culte Smash Records et produit par Shelby Singleton, cet album rétrospectivement considéré comme majeur fut pourtant un flop commercial à sa sortie. La Beatlemania et la British Invasion en général avaient détourné le public du groove de Memphis; Jerry Lee allait devoir se renouveller ou disparaître.
Son répertoire rock'n'roll original des années 50 chez Sun Records lui valait pourtant l'idolâtrie des Beatles, et de John Lennon en particulier. Elliott Mintz, journaliste et ami personnel de Lennon, nous narre la rencontre entre le chanteur des Beatles et Jerry Lee dans les coulisses du Roxy Club de Los Angeles, pour ce qui restera un grand moment de radiophonie (illustré, pour l'anecdote, par Floyd Cramer, le pianiste du Nashville A Team, jouant Unchained Melody).
Avant cela, retour à la scène et à un versant moins connu (du moins en Europe) de la carrière de Lewis : ses années de chanteur de country à Nashville. La musique country-western, il en parle sur scène et en interviews : il l'aime, il l'affirme sans détours et il veut amener son public rock à s’y mettre aussi (tout en attirant à lui le public country par la grâce d’albums solides et convaincants). You Win Again, du grand Hank Williams, est son hommage du soir à cette culture. Il s'agit d'un extrait de By Request : More Of The Greatest Live Show On Earth enregistré lors d'un concert (mi-rock mi-country) à Fort Worth au Texas durant l'été 1966.
Suivent ses hommages - en déclarations et en musique - à Chuck Berry et au King. Qui d'autre mieux que le dernier survivant du Million Dollar Quartet pour narrer la rencontre historique de Jerry Lee avec Elvis (et Johnny Cash) durant une session d’enregistrement de Carl Perkins au Sun Studio de Memphis ? On écoute deux classiques roots de l'époque, Sweet Little Sixteen de Chuck Berry et Blue Suede Shoes de Carl Perkins (numéro 1 des charts pour Elvis en 56), rejoués en 1978 sur le bien balancé (pour l’époque disco) Jerry Lee Keeps Rockin'. Paru chez Mercury Records et produit comme souvent par Jerry Kennedy, cet album nostalgique mérite d'être revalorisé.
On quitte ensuite Nashville pour s'intéresser à Southern Roots : Back Home to Memphis, un album à coloration plus soul (toujours chez Mercury) dont on écoute Hold On, I'm Coming d'Isaac Hayes. Cette adaptation façon country-soul croonée enfonce la plupart des versions connues (en ce compris celle de Bryan Ferry). Lewis y use et abuse de sa technique de personnalisation des paroles, plaçant des Jerry Lee par-ci, Jerry Lee par-là dans le texte. Le procédé est utilisé jusqu'à l'autoparodie délibérée sur le titre suivant : Jerry's Place. Celui-ci est tiré de l’album Odd Man In de 1975, une autre production du fidèle Jerry Kennedy pour Mercury; et un LP aussi oublié qu'incontournable.
Après un retour à Hambourg pour deux titres classiques chargés en électricité atomique (et pour un équilibre entre les tempos), rapide détour par un disque méconnu, Soul My Way, sorti chez Smash en 1967. On en écoute un titre aux paroles réacs et cent pour-cent sudistes: Shotgun Man. Une ballade ensuite (il fallait au moins une ballade dans cette sélection), When A Man Loves A Woman, reprise du tube et slow crapuleux de Percy Sledge. On peut l’entendre sur Southern Roots, l’album dit du retour à Memphis déjà évoqué plus haut.
Avant de conclure l’hommage avec deux extraits du chef-d’œuvre country de sa discographie (Another Place, Another Time, Smash, 1968) : I'm A Lonesome Fugitive et All Night Long. Si la première vous semble familière, c'est peut-être parce vous en avez entendu la version originale (par Liz Anderson) dans la mixtape #SublimationIsWar.
Il y aurait tellement plus à dire à propos de Jerry Lee Lewis, sa vie, son œuvre, mais je m’en tiens là pour l’instant et vous souhaite une bonne écoute, ou réécoute, de The Killer Is Dead, Long Live The Killer.
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Linda Martell, la prima cantante afroamericana a debuttare al Grand Ole Opry.
Con l'album «Color Me Country» del 1970 la musicista della Carolina del Sud, Linda Martell, entrò nella storia quale prima cantante donna afroamericana sia a debuttare al Grand Ole Opry che a trovare successo nelle classifiche nazionali di Billboard.
Color Me Country è il primo e unico album in studio pubblicato dalla cantante country americana Linda Martell, classe 1941, che ha iniziato la sua carriera artistica nel 1969.
Con questo disco, prodotto da Shelby Singleton e pubblicato nell’agosto del 1970 da Plantation Records, la musicista della Carolina del Sud (all’anagrafe Thelma Bynem) è entrata nella storia quale prima cantante…
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“Soulshake” (Myra Smith, Margaret Lewis) de Peggy Scott and JoJo Benson, editado en sencillo el 11 de enero de 1969 por SSS International (SSS 761) y producido por Shelby S. Singleton, es una de mis canciones favoritas R+B fusión de todos los tiempos. Haciendo equilibrios entre el soul, el rocanrol y el country, en ella Scott & Benson parecen los Ike & Tina sureños. La grabación hecha en Nashville, Tennessee, ascendió tan sólo hasta el nº 37 de las listas pop y el nº 13 de las R&B ¡que tiempos! Acabo de saber de la muerte hace una semana de una de las mujeres que la compusieron, Margaret Lewis.
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Clyde McPhatter - Lover Please (1962)
Billy Swan
from:
"Lover Please" / "Let's Forget About the Past" (Single)
"Lover Please!" (LP)
R&B | Pop
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Album Personnel:
Clyde McPhatter: Lead Vocals
"Pig" Robbins (Hargus Melvin Robbins): Piano
Boots Randolph: Saxophone
Bill Justis: Trumpet
Harold Bradley: Guitar
Jerry Kennedy: Guitar
Kelso Herston: Guitar
Ray Eddington: Guitar
Charlie McCoy: Harmonica
Bob Moore: Bass
Buddy Harmon: Drums
Willie Ackerman: Drums
Chorus:
The Merry Melody Singers:
Gordon Stoker
Margie Singleton
Millie Kirkham
Neal Matthews
Ray Walker
Jerry Kennedy: Conductor
Arranged by Stan Applebaum
Produced by Shelby S. Singleton Jr.
Recorded:
@ The Bradley Recording Studios
in Nashville, Tennessee USA
during 1962
Released:
in February of 1962
Mercury Records
Clyde McPhatter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_McPhatter
#Clyde McPhatter#Mercury Records#Billy Swan#Nashville#1960's#Nashville A-Team#Charlie McCoy#Hargus Robbins#Hargus Pig Robbins#Boots Randolph#Bill Justis#Buddy Harmon#Lover Please#Lover Please!
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Happy Black History Month!
February 9th’s black country artist is Linda Martell. Born Thelma Bynem in 1941, Martell grew up singing in church choirs in Leesville, North Carolina. By the time she was a teenager, Martell was making her living performing with one of her sisters and her cousin in a girl group, Linda Martell and the Anglos. After her cousin got married, Martell continued performing as a solo act, singing R&B and country tunes in clubs around the area. The country songs in particular caught the attention of the man who would go on to be her agent, Duke Rayner, who promoted her to record companies as the “female Charley Pride.” Shelby Singleton Jr. of Mercury records soon signed her, changed her name, and promoted her like crazy. Martell quickly had a single in the Top 25, and became the first African American woman to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, going on to perform there 11 more times. Unfortunately, life wasn’t always so good for Martell. Throughout her tours she was heckled with racial slurs from the mostly white crowds, and on some occasions her manager had to stop concerts until the worst of the offenders were removed. On top of this, her producer started promoting white country stars over Martell, especially Jeannie C. Riley. When Martell left the record company, her former producer sued every record company she tried to work with, essentially blackballing her from country music. Though Martell went back to singing R&B in clubs she never made another record again, eventually working as a school bus driver before retiring. She is currently 79 years old, and lives in North Carolina. She was never inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Essential Album: Color Me Country. Recorded in one 12 hour workday, Color Me Country is a testament to Martell’s hard work, musical versatility, and beautiful voice. I was originally going to include her in this series simply for her historical value, but once I heard this record I was blown away by her talent. Every single song on this album is a winner. From peppy honky tonk songs like You’re Crying, Boy Crying to ballads like San Francisco Is a Lonely Town, Martell offers something for every country lover. It’s truly a shame that this was the only record she was allowed to make; every track of Color Me Country promises great things to come.
Essential Song: Bad Case of the Blues, on Color Me Country. One of Martell’s top three hits, Bad Case of the Blues showcases Martell’s strong, clear voice and impressive yodeling. With a sly smile and shoulders bopping subtly to the rhythm, Martell shines like a star in the middle of the stage, no spotlight needed. In her 2020 interview to Rolling Stone, Martell talks about this Hee Haw performance, and how, during rehearsal, a show executive came up to her and tried to teach her the “right way” to pronounce her words. Martell, however, kept her head high and sang the way she always did, and her performance is all the better for it.
#Linda Martell#Grand Ole Opry#Hee Haw#black history month#country music#country music history#country
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David Allan Coe - Penitentiary Blues RARE PROMO VIDEO
Shelby Singleton video with Bobby Charles...
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Which gardening tools are essential for gardening?
Do you have a favorite garden tool? Something that you keep within arm’s reach every time you go into the garden?
What do you use to make digging, pruning, growing or harvesting better for the back or more soothing for the soul?
The “can’t-live-without-it” tool will vary from gardener to gardener, region to region and season to season.
Here’s our top 10 list, based on interviews with gardeners in the Southeast who range in experience from serious home gardener to nursery owner — and everything in between.
Tips To Starting Your Own Home Compost Project
It’s just the start of a discussion. Tells us in the comments section if we’ve overlooked one of your favorites – or how you use the items in our list differently than we’ve described.
In the meantime, in no particular order the tools that made our list:
1. Scissors. Karen Converse, a master gardener in DeKalb County, Ga., says plain household scissors, nothing fancy, are her first choice of garden tools. She just sticks them in a pocket and uses them to deadhead flowers, snip herbs, harvest small vegetables such as peppers, open a bag of potting soil or a seed packet or cut string. She still remembers the day a professional nurseryman saw her using them in her community garden plot and remarked that any real gardener always carries a pair of scissors. Robert Wyatt, a retired professor of botany at the University of Georgia, uses a pair of heavy-duty garden scissors with plastic-coated handles to harvest vegetables.
2. Weeders. Manufacturers give them different names, but one that is at the top of several lists goes by the common name of “dandelion digger.” That’s appropriate because these little tools are perfect for prying up weeds with taproots (like dandelions!) and crabgrass. They work well because they have a long, slender business-end that looks like a cross between a notched screw driver and a two-tine fork and are made to penetrate easily into the soil and remove weed roots from deep in the ground. The fork points are narrow and sharp enough to surgically coax out wood sorrel, spurge and annual bluegrass that like to hide in ground covers.
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3. A soil knife. The Hori-Hori is a hands-on favorite of several gardeners we talked with. This is a Japanese tool with a stainless steel concave blade with a sharp edge on one side and a serrated edge on the other. It can be used for cutting through roots, transplanting, dividing perennials, slicing through sod, weeding, removing bonsai plants from pots and many more garden tasks. Van Malone, an avid gardener in North Atlanta, recalls forgetting it was in his car when he went on a business assignment to a federal nuclear facility in South Carolina. Because it has a seven-inch blade and the maximum blade length allowed at the facility was six inches, guards at the entrance to the plant told him that he would have to dispose of the tool. He complied by driving back down the road, hiding the tool in the woods off the property and retrieving it on the way home. (Now that’s a favorite tool!)
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4. Pruning shears. Andy Sessions of Sunlight Gardens Nursery in Andersonville, Tenn., loves her Saboten Model 1210 from Japan for one simple reason: the blades are sharp. How sharp? At the local farmers co-op, where she buys her pruners, they are called sheep toe trimmers. She also likes them because of their small size and light weight. She uses them to prune woody perennials and finds them so effective that she gives them as Christmas gifts to gardening friends. Other brands that drew praise were Felco and Corona.
5. Water hoses and water wands. What could be more important as much of the country suffers through record-breaking heat and drought? Amanda Campbell, manager of display gardens at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, says these are a staple. Her favorite brands are Gilmour hoses and Dramm wands with a shut-off valve. The shut off is the little brass piece that lets you turn the water on and off without constantly going back and forth to the spigot.
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6. A shovel. But not just any shovel. Wyatt, the retired UGA professor, likes the Sharpshooter. It is a small, compact shovel with a long, narrow blade that is curved and digs deep holes. He says he finds it a lot more efficient than a long-handled, broad-bladed traditional shovel for digging in hard clay soil where he may hit occasional rocks. The Sharpshooter blade can also be sharpened. Rene Freie in Peachtree City, Ga., likes the Kombi shovel, which looks as much like a Samurai weapon as a digging tool. Its jagged edges make it efficient for cutting through roots and compacted soil. Campbell also likes to use a snow shovel for spreading mulch, scooping debris and putting out topdressing. Just when you think you’d thought of everything! As an alternative to a shovel, Shelby Singleton of Carolina Native Nursery in Burnsville, N.C., likes to use a mattock. She says they are great for digging out small stumps or digging in clay. They are available in a small, hand-held size and a large shovel size. Singleton likes them because she says they are more effective than a shovel and don’t require as much strength.
7. Rakes. As with shovels, not just any rake will do. Different rakes serve different purposes. Campbell particularly likes a shrub rake because it will fit into tight and small spaces better than a big fan rake. She likes to use fan rakes to rake off leaves, mulch, and tidy up when collecting the last debris. She also uses hard rakes to move leaves and mulch, but likes to flip it over and use it to move soil and compost, fine-tune grading in annual beds and smooth out soil. After putting soil in a planting hole, she says the hard rake is a great tool to smooth out the soil and blend it in with the rest of the bed.
8. Saws. Wyatt likes a fixed, pull-to-cut saw with a slightly curved blade to prune woody plants. He uses a Corona RS 7385, for example, to cut cleanly and quickly through fairly large limbs. It can also be used to cut down small weedy trees. Others prefer a bow saw for pruning and shaping trees or clearing out undergrowth. Still others prefer a folding saw for its portability. The type of saw depends on the need. Anyone see a pattern here? Of course, you can always keep a pair of loppers handy. But, with pruning shears and a sturdy saw in your gardening tool kit, you likely won’t need it.
9. Loop hoe. Shawn Bard, another master gardener in DeKalb County, Ga., loves this modified hoe for edging and weeding. By using a back and forth motion, she says the blade is perfect for slipping beneath the top layer of soil and scraping the roots out of the dirt. Because the weeds come up very easily and the corners on the loop hoe make excellent edgers, she says it’s a great tool to tidy up beds. The other thing it does very well is cultivate the top layer of soil, which makes it perfect for mixing fertilizers or compost into the top layer without disturbing the soil structure beneath. This is especially handy if you want to add fertilizer or compost to a bed that is already planted or if you want to remove weeds or overgrowth in a bed that’s already planted.
10. A hat. Alan Armitage, a professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia, told the 2011 Cullowhee Native Plant Conference at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., that he makes any student who comes to an outdoor class without a hat write an essay on skin cancer. That’s worth remembering each time you head into the garden.
The almost-made-it list
There were many other worthy suggestions that didn’t make our top 10 list. Some of these include:
• A Tip Bag by Bosmere (for debris)
• A kneeling pad
• Gloves
• A corn husk broom
• A rolling cart to carry large shrubs or trees to a planting destination.
• And this one, offered with a smile and a chuckle: a golf bag and cart with wheels and a handle – to carry shovels, rakes and other tools into the garden.
In the end, the list differences aren’t important, Campbell points out. What’s important, she says, is to always buy quality products. Quality tools, she emphasizes, make all the difference in the world in enjoying working in the garden.
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What tools are your favorites, how do you use them and how do they make gardening more enjoyable?
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SCOTTY McKAY QUINTET: The Train Kept A' Rollin -- 45rpm Version
Recorded spring 1967 in Dallas,TX. With Blair Smith (lead guitar), Tommy Spalding (rhythm guitar, harmonica), and Geoff West (bass guitar & drums). Produced by Harold Hoffman.
Biography: Max K. Lipscomb was born in Dallas in 1937 and joined up as a rhythm guitarist/pianist in Gene Vincent's Blue Caps in late 1957. Lipscomb was listed as being 17 even though he was already 20. Philly based "teen idol" producer's Bob Crewe and Frank Slay soon recorded him under the stage name Scotty McKay, whom Lipscomb remembers being called at the suggestion of Dick Clark. Scotty McKay released sides on a series of small East Coast labels including Event, Parkway, Swan, and Lawn before the 1960 Payola scandal pulled Clark's "teen idol" scene apart. McKay ended up recording until 1962 in New Orleans at Ace Records, doing 6 singles with sidemen like Mac Rebbenack, Allen Toussaint and Fats Domino's backing band. An album compiled these 45s, plus bonus tracks by throwing McKay's voice over original Frankie Ford backing tracks made by Huey "Piano" Smith. After his relationship with Ace ended, McKay kept his career as alive as possible with one shot deals with labels like Shelby Singleton's SSS, ABC distributed affiliate Dot, Desk, Phillips, Capri, Falcon and Claridge. In 1963 a song he wrote called Summer's Comin' was a hit for Kirby St. Romain reaching # 49 on the charts. By 1965, The Scotty McKay Quintet found themselves a cameo role in a low budget Vincent Price horror flick for AIP based on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Black Cat" where he appears briefly on screen performing his own tune Sinner Man and covers of Bo Diddley's "Bo Diddley" and Chuck Berry's "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man". His only other on screen credit occurs in an even lower budget 1967 TV movie called "Creature of Destruction". At one point while on a Dick Clark package tour backing Brian Hyland, he ended up recording a single with brit blues act the Yardbirds that was released in the U.K on Columbia in 1967. He kept trying, also recording for the Squire label as Max K Lipscomb With Bobby Rambeau Orchestra, and tried his luck as Tommy And The Tom Tom's and even as the Shut Downs. In 1970, Scotty McKay contributed a song to Gene Vincent's first Kama Sutra album at Gene's request, and sang backing vocals. Despite some 30 years in the biz and a lengthy, if haphazard discography, McKay never truly reached the pinnacles of pop infamy he'd sought before his death came in 1991.
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