Language of the Blues - Edmonton Blues Society

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Texas stuff and some Chicago stuff, but it was stil
and secretly desegregated New Orleans studio, J&M. Tyler helped create t
1960s, including Fats Domino, Earl King, Shirley Lee, and Etta Jam
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Inside J&M, away from prying eyes, black and white musicians played together on many
together. But we did. We may have the only musicians union today that has two numbers;
first time that Mac [Dr. John] used a mixed band the unions raised hell. I think they fined
him and it really caused a
B piano player Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland
Byrd) was actually banned from performing in white clubs in town for many years, which
segregated in the clubs, so many w
got older, then whites started picking up on what he was doing, so he started making a
revved-
Freed produced the first
52 in Cleveland. A near-riot broke out as people tried to get into
the sold-out concert. It was no coincidence that the separate-but-equal doctrine was
overturned two years later.
nagers-
ewis,
James Brown, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Jim Morrison, Johnny Rotten, Prince- they let
themselves be possessed not by any god they could name but by the spirit they felt in the
music. Their behavior in this possession was something Western society had never
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