North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic 2012 at Betty Davis Bar-B-Que, Waterford, MS 6/29-30/12
Support real hip-hop in Memphis @citiesaviv live at SkullXRose 4/27/12 at 9 PM $5 #MemphisRising
FREE Orange Mound Arts Festival featuring
Al Kapone and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra with U Dig Dance Company!
Performances by New Ballet Ensemble, Ballet on Wheels, Neosoulville, Memphis Black Arts Alliance’s Jazz-A-Fire,
Melrose High School Band and more!
Workshops, Booths and Activities by: Hattiloo Theatre, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Dixon Gallery & Gardens, Opera Memphis, Playhouse on the Square, Creative Aging, Memphis College of Art, Metal Museum, Collage Dance Collective, Memphis Music Foundation, Voices of the South, Africa in April, UrbanArt Commission, Lily Roze Studios, U Dig Dance Academy, Bridging Souls Productions, Rahleecoh Ishakarah, Nosy, Brandon Marshall, Derrick Dent, Tomi Durgin, Jamond Bullock, Teresa Hubbard, Maysa Sem, Shelby County Health Department, Melrose PTSA and the Urban Child Institute.
In case of rain, the Pop Up will be the same date and time with a new location: Orange Mound Community Center, 2572 Park Ave.
This Saturday: Stax to the Max Soulsville Street Festival
STAX TO THE MAX: A SOULSVILLE STREET FESTIVAL! 04/28/2012 12:00pm STAX TO THE MAX IS BACK! A SOULSVILLE STREET FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE 11 YEARS OF THE …
Hwy 165 Friday 4/27/12 at Club Jewels in Bastrop, LA
Racism: Blaming the Liberals?
   The cyberworld rightly responded with shock and outrage at the recent Swedish art installation at which the Swedish Minister of Culture cut into …
William Bollinger-You Can Lead Your Woman To The Altar
William Bollinger – You Can lead Your Woman to The Altar (by spinning45s)
William Bollinger was THE soul star of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, frequently performing at places like the Purple Crackle Club in East Cape Girardeau, Illinois, but he did most of his recording in Memphis, usually at Sounds of Memphis, which today is known as the House of Blues. Aside from a mention in the book Tales of an All-Night Town, which was largely about his outlaw brother James Bollinger and the town of Brooklyn, Illinois, Willie Bollinger has been largely forgotten since his death in 2003. Some interest in him has been aroused more recently as a result of the Ace/Kent reissues of XL/Sound of Memphis material, but a full CD-length retrospective of Bollinger’s work has yet to appear.Â
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Eddie Giles – It Takes Me All Night (by SVM77)
Eddie Giles (now the Rev. Eddie Giles and still in Shreveport) was, along with Reuben Bell, one of the pillars of Shreveport soul, first coming to prominence with the classic “I’m A Losing Boy.” An early 1970’s collaboration with Jerry Strickland led to this Southern soul gem, “It Takes Me All Night (To Do What I Used To Do All Night).” The song was cut at Sound City Studios, Stewart Madison’s studio at 3316 Line Avenue in Shreveport in 1971. Â The building still stands, although it is now a furniture store.Â
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Soul Shouting Tommy- I’m The Man (by DerekSee)
The Anla label was a subsidiary of Eddie Shuler’s Goldband Distributing Corporation in Lake Charles, and, for the most part, was his home for the funkier side of Black music in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. The Soul Shouting Tommy 45 is one of the rarer Anla discs. I have never actually seen a copy.
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