I grew up in a large family, with me being the second youngest. I have two older sisters who were seriously "into" rocknroll. Of course this was just a little past rocknroll's first supernova...If not for the Girl Groups & Surfbilly bands the music may have died...strangled by Teen Idols & sugar coated pop. So my older brothers were folkies who of course thought of rocknroll as silly superfici
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Trouble of the World - Mahalia JacksonThe above clip is from the 1959 version of the award winning movie "Imitation of Life" it is one of those movies that is such a big part of the black culture of my youth. If you want to see some people living the blues, watch that movie.Again I think that this song captures the mood of gospel blues so well. And while it has a sad theme it soars in such a wa...
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Dear Mahalia Jackson,A friend found you singing "A Rusty Old Halo".I am 70 years old and this one song I remembered onlythe words, "a robe so wooly is scratches". The last timeI heard the song was in 1956. I couldn't believe that hefound it. He sent several vocalist singing it but I absolutelylove the way you sing it. I am not financially able to pay for anythingbut it is my greatest wish t...
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