Entries by Norman Warwick

KEB MO at home with all music

You have that. You have the Black Panthers, you have Malcolm X, you have Martin Luther King and any number of ministers from the Civil Rights Movement and those things. And then later on comes Maya Angelou (left). a poet with such eloquence, who talks about all those things. Her cohorts, people like Oprah Winfrey and people like that who bring it about with a gentle touch. Unapologetically.

JAMES TALLEY: names fall out in conversation

James Talley took me back to another time and place by introducing me to W. Lee O´Daniel And The Light Crust Doughboys, in a song I referenced, along with the aforementioned by Chip Taylor in my serialised book of the time, called Names Fall Out In Conversations, based on songs written by artists to commend other artists-

HOW WE MAKE THE GREATEST HITS

The curators of these projects are like lawyers in the court of public opinion, arguing that a certain artist, a certain movement or a certain phase of an artist’s career has been undervalued and overlooked.