Sorry about the hiatus. My work has been eating my life lately. Hope that this post is a first step toward a full-fledged re-engagement with MOG.I'd never heard of the Holmes Brothers until Cody (who else?) facilitated the introduction. In their blissfully under-the-radar way, they may just be the best purveyors of cover versions out there. When a song is reinvented by them, it stays reinvented...
_(L to R) Popsy Dixon, Sherman Holmes and Wendell Holmes_Happy Birthday to *Popsy Dixon* of the "*Holmes Brothers*":http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:aifyxq95ldke, born on this day in 1942 in Norfolk, Virginia. Popsy plays the drums and sings (most notably in an angelic falsetto) with this three-piece dynamo of blues, soul, R&B and gospel. He also sports one of the coolest nicknames I...