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Solomon Burke (King Solomon), Bert Berns, and Cissy Houston, Burke’s backup singer Jerry Lee and Buddy Holly I started early. I was eight years old in 1956 and, yes, I remember Elvis on Ed Sullivan. But what really caught my eye was what I witnessed on American Bandstand two years later. I was channel-flipping and […]
James “Yaya” Hough, Untitled, 2014, paper, ink, pencil, watercolor, 8 1/2 x 11". AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN, James “Yaya” Hough was sentenced to life without parole in Pennsylvania, a state responsible for sentencing more Black youth to life than almost any other. Told that he would never be released from prison, he turned that death sentence into a rigorous reading and art practice, spending hours a day with his sketchbooks drawing, painting watercolors, and working on communal murals inside the facility. He describes his daily routine as taking on a spiritual character, a “discipli...
A Celebration of Five Decades of Glorious Memphis Music
By Keefer “The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.”—Lou Reed. While the guitar was instrumental to Lou Reed’s life in music, his eclectic taste in the art of songwriting has always stretched beyond that one singular instrument. “Rock and roll is so great, people should start dying for it,” the Velvet Underground founder once said. “You don’t understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream…The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it,” he added, in what is the clearest r...
Turning 40: 1981 at the movies By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated February 18, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Harrison Ford in "Raiders of the Lost Ark."Paramount Pictures Forty years ago the movies had almost left behind the New Hollywood of the â70s. Almost. In 1981, blockbusters were continuing to take over multiplexes, themselves still a relatively new phenomenon. Big hair would soon arrive, but not quite yet. Further scrambling the transition was the continuing presence of several eminent figures from the Studio Era. Movie generations came together in a movie about generations co...