| Right Reverend Blind
Bill C |
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| I received the following important communique
from the Right Reverend Blind Bill C along with a mother lode of great
photographs from our Memphis trip. He also has been sending over some
great links to some spectacular web sites from and about the Delta area.
He really captures "The Spirit of The South" in these photographs.
.. Not bad for a blind guy. It would be to your benefit to review the web links that follow below. |
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You've Received a Web cam Image from Right Reverend Blind
Bill C. To save the image embedded in this email, right-click the image and click "Save Picture As...". Name the picture, select where you want to save it, and it will be saved as a bitmap (.BMP). From: Right Reverend Blind Bill C To: armdtv AT gmail DOT com Message: Thanks for the web page, now I can see. |
| Roofscape
from Rev. Bill's apartment overlooking the Mississippi River Home of Memphis Slim |
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| The author
in front of Isaac Hayes' Hammond B3 in the lobby of the Stax
Music Academy. |
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view of the home of Memphis Slim. The author and our faithful tour guide. |
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| Another
view of the juke joint where Robert Johnson was allegedly poisoned. Sunset at the grave site and the locust choir was singing. |
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| Excellent
shot of Robert Johnson headstone. Check the reflections of the sunset.
The good Reverend can really see the light. On our way home, late afternoon and it is still hotter than a biscuit out of the oven. |
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| The Right
Reverend Blind Bill C's Links of Note |
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• Greenwood,
Mississippi Courthouse • Corporate and Manufacturing Home of Viking Ranges • The STAX Pages The Blue Highway ".. yo Holmes, dis make a nice desktop." - Rev Bill C  |
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It's been a long way home I must say. Thank you, Ron and Bill, for supporting me all these years as I attempted to rediscover myself through the music of The South. Not only was this a great reunion, but a great time reconciling with ourselves the whats and whys of what we did, and still do, with music. I should also thank my wife for encouraging me to take this expedition, as she is a firm believer that old friends are one's only assets in life. I came to "the blues" late in my career. I'm sorry that my expedition didn't provide more information regarding the early pioneers of blues, particularly the earliest "juke joint" piano players and acoustic guitarists of that era and region. I was introduced to the early piano blues of Leroy Carr, Tom Dorsey, Jesse James, Meade Lux Lewis, and Memphis Slim by a very good friend. I've lost touch with him, I think because of my own personal confusions, or possibly because he hired me to side his house and I put all the shingles on upside down. I'm not sure what I did, but for sure it has been "nuthin' but da blues" since I've talked to him. I would like to thank him as well. Thanks to all who get anything out of these pages. |
SIDE BAR Here are a couple of tunes from the long lost "Chikun
Shak Archives." Recorded in the early 1980's in a chicken coop
on the outskirts of town, these were some early interpretations that
attempted to capture the spirit of Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell,
as well as the "churchy feel" music that is so predominant
in the Memphis and Mississippi Delta area. Don't let anyone fool ya'
.. this stuff was, and is, hard to play. |
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