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his man had taken the time to call and tell me that we talked a little bit about his early days at stax and the great r b and soul records he had cut at american that was the good stuff he said and that was about it as i continued to write about the music over the next couple of years i discovered more and more evidence of the underlying subtle genius of moman s guitar playing and production in all kinds of places where i had least expected it when the groundbreaking memphis boys the story of american studios was released in 2010 i devoured it and was lucky enough to connect with the author roben jones who came at the music from a different angle and helped me to broaden my understanding of the man and his music in 2011 the memphis boys were slated to play the inaugural show at the newly renovated franklin theater in franklin tennessee i bought tickets the first day they became available rented a car and drove down as i parked the car much to my amazement i saw chips sitting alone out back of the theater smoking don t you have anything better to do moman than to hang around the back of a movie theater sneaking a cigarette he looked at me amazed i really couldn t believe i had just said that to tell you the truth do i know you he said after i told him who i was he remembered immediately and told me he was glad to finally meet me in person once again he went out of his way to put me at ease and seemed to enjoy my pestering him about his early days at stax with william bell carla thomas prince conley and the triumphs the show was incredible and i got to hang out with moman both during intermission and after the show back in the smoking section out in the parking lot amazing elvis week in 2012 was like total chips immersion as john broven and i travelled to memphis for the american group s beale street note dedication a few well placed phone calls helped me accomplish one of my long time goals to re unite moman with darryl carter and the masqueraders all of whom he hadn t seen since he closed american in 1972 he was so into it after another rousing memphis boys show at graceland we moved on to nashville where our friend at the country music hall of fame michael gray was kind enough to let us hang out backstage with chips bobby emmons and the rest of the boys after his excellent interview of moman for the museum in 2014 it was announced that shelby county intended to place a historical marker at the former site of american studios at the corner of chelsea and thomas in memphis broven and i again made the trip and were a bit taken aback to see our man chips arrive in a wheelchair he had suffered a stroke and had difficulty speaking but he was still sharp as a tack when i brought howard grimes who had been his drummer at stax over 50 years before over to see him he knew him immediately and it did my heart good to see them back together again at the memphis boys salute at graceland later that night chips cheered on his band from the front row but i knew that things would somehow never be the same we had taken a lot of photos at the marker dedication and i printed a bunch of them up and sent them out to chips reggie and the rest of the boys about a week later my cell phone rang and i was amazed to see moman on the caller id it was chips wife jane who told me that he insisted she call me to thank me for the pictures after a couple of minutes she put him on the line he just wanted to tell me he said through his stroke slurred speech how much he appreciated all i had done i felt the lump in my throat no i told him i should be thanking you for all you have done for american music and i can promise you one thing as long as i m around there will be someone out here who will make sure that people never forget just how great and important your work continues to be i hung up the phone and i wept posted by red kelly at 10 47 pm 4 comments thursday december 31 2015 called home as you may know every december i try to write something up as a sort of tribute to those who have gone on before us in the preceding year it is a grim task that has seemed to grow more difficult as time marches on the sudden passing of allen toussaint in november took us all by surprise and broke the heart of the crescent city as new orleans mayor mitch landrieu said at allen s memorial service he was as much of a new orleans icon as st louis cathedral or the superdome and now in an instant he was gone one of the very few people who deserved to be called a musical genius i don t think we ll see the likes of him again in our lifetime new orleans seemed to have been hit particularly hard in 2015 with the loss of people like harold battiste big chief bo dollis smokey johnson frankie ford trumpet black charles otis irving smith and on november 21st blue eyed soul brother skip easterling skip had come up across the lake in slidell singing with eddie lang and after a couple of singles on reno and ron that went nowhere was signed by joe banashak in 1963 and handed off to toussaint for his new alon label don t let him come between us although easterling is remembered mostly for the records he cut later on with eddie bo and huey smith this little known toussaint composition almost certainly cut while he was home on leave during his stint in the army provides us with a glimpse of the under appreciated work he was doing at cosimo recording during that period wayne carson who had penned songs like the letter and soul deep for the box tops and nine pound steel for joe simon along with dan penn who said they came up with about a pound a day while at american sound in memphis said he wrote his most enduring composition in ten minutes sitting at my kitchen table in late 1971 chips moman told him he had to come up with a bridge for the song before he would record it on him staff songwriters mark james and johnny christopher sat down with wayne upstairs in chips office and hammered one out on an old upright piano moman approved according to roben jones he liked the results so much that he flew carson personally to nashville to shop the tapes to fred foster at monument who told them i don t think the world is ready for it always on my mind he may have been right but chips never gave up on the song ten years later when he was producing poncho and lefty on merle haggard and willie nelson he and bobby emmons offered the song to merle who declined to cut it for the album willie however said it bowled me over the moment i first heard it an absolute masterpiece moman s towering 1982 memphis boys production of it on nelson will in my humble opinion live on forever bobby emmons left us on february 23rd wayne carson on july 20th soul meeting the passing of don covay in february followed by ben e king in april brought the entire soul clan back together one more time well actually they never really were together when they cut their lone atlantic single in 1968 recording their vocals at different times whenever their schedule permitted don covay was the prime mover and shaker behind the whole super group idea and as we ve seen in the past wanted king in the clan from day one after recruiting bobby womack to play guitar he produced this funky artifact of soul from a time and place that will never come again it s all wrong but it s alright speaking of atlantic when percy sledge died in april it really hit home he was to my generation our first introduction to southern soul if you are of a certain age you know what i mean i still get all emotionally involved whenever i hear when a man loves a woman and i know i always will this phenomenal b side written by marlin greene and eddie hinton neither one of whom gets a mention in the muscle shoals movie has the same effect on me percy had that power it s your love that s keeping me alive soul deep please join me in saying goodbye to all those who have gone on before us in 2015 b b king allen toussaint percy sledge don covay ben e king natalie cole marion james mighty sam mcclain harold battiste ornette coleman frankie ford smokey johnson trumpet black skip easterling irving smith charles honeyman otis little bob jockey etienne billy joe royal bobby emmons wayne carson buddy emmons billy sherrill bob johnston miriam bienstock buddy buie billy butler arthur brooks curtis lee ronnie bright herbie goins cynthia robinson lady bo ben cauley william brown emerson able jr gene mason robert wolfman belfour little frankie lee eddie cusic smokey wilson big time sarah william guest louis johnson clifford adams wilton felder joe houston marcus belgrave frank dell popsie dixon richard crooks rose marie mccoy andrae crouch almeta latimer ortheia barnes errol brown billy sha rae paul david roberts lesley gore p f sloan alvin lee tim drummond gary marker jack ely michael brown dallas taylor eddie hoh snuff garrett luigi creatore phil woods little jimmy dickens samuel charters mack mccormick victor castarphen bruce lundvall al abrams rod mckuen vic firth joe franklin until we meet again posted by red kelly at 11 41 am 2 comments monday december 14 2015 j hines and the boys a funky xmas to you nation wide 101 a funky xmas to you the focus of soul detective s case three our investigation into the life and times of j hines has been one of our most rewarding and comprehensive long the partner and collaborator of roy c hammond j hines and his guitar have left an indelible stamp on southern soul and his influence on the music can still be heard today it was my good fortune to have visited allendale south carolina several times during the course of our inquiry and to have made the acquaintance of roy benny gordon and his family and j s marvelous wife ann one of the most soulful places on the planet i will never forget the moonlit night that ann took me out to visit hines who had passed away in 2004 as yet unmarked grave this man was deep folks and by all accounts one of the kindest and gentlest human beings that ever walked this earth although we knew of this record s existence back in 2008 i said i have never even heard of an existing vinyl copy well now as you can see all that s changed i came across this one on ebay a short time back released as an alternate holiday b side of funky funk part 1 nation wide 100 i can t imagine there were too many of these pressed at the time that s roy on the vocals and j hines on that rockin guitar down the chimney came a big black santa claus with a funk sack on his back singin there ain t nothin like a funky christmas no there sure ain t i hope santa treats you good red posted by red kelly at 1 39 pm 3 comments wednesday november 11 2015 allen toussaint 1938 2015 the quiet genius of allen toussaint flowed like a river through the city he loved enormously talented he knew few equals as a songwriter producer and arranger yet he carried himself with humility and grace my music is homegrown from the garden of new orleans he said preferring always to deflect the attention away from himself genteel immaculate allen toussaint was without a doubt one of the most wonderful people i ve ever known i first met him in 1988 when i took the bus up to clematis avenue and knocked on the door of his sea saint studio i was nothing short of amazed when he welcomed me in and showed me around himself even taking a seat at the piano and playing a little something from that moment on i became his disciple and went to see him perform whenever i got the chance without fail he took the time after each show to listen to me and answer my questions he didn t have to do that but he did as i continued in my quest to find the records he had a hand in creating the doors kept opening in front of me as one obscure discovery seemed to lead to the next when katrina hit ten years ago toussaint was the reason i started writing this stuff on the internet as it felt like the wind might just blow it all away go back home alon 9021 would become my first b side post in september of 2005 since then allen and his music have seemed to run like a thread through everything i ve ever written if you type his name into one of those red kelly search boxes you get over ten pages of results in 2006 i went so far as to dub him the patron saint of the site as he cut so many great b sides the more i discovered about him the more impressed i became with the impeccable quality of his work in 2008 i posted a podcast called an instant of toussaint that pulled together some of the under appreciated records he produced for the new orleans label and the hits just kept on comin i didn t know what they meant at the time but most of the 45s i was putting up bore that cryptic hyphenated set of two numbers that would come to be known as the cosimo code as we moved forward in researching and building the site in 2012 toussaint and his work became more prominent than ever before and the more we learned the more it confirmed his importance in the development of the music this past april when john broven was invited by the french quarter fest to moderate a discussion about cosimo matassa that would feature allen and deacon john moore he asked me along to do a short presentation on the cosimo code and what it represents i was truly honored and not a little nervous to say the least after all this meant i would be sharing a stage with toussaint before the panel i told allen that he was now the patriarch of new orleans music and that i thought he was every bit as important a figure as louis armstrong or professor longhair but he d have none of it and dismissed that kind of talk with a wave of his hand i kept at it though you re the guy who called professor longhair the bach of rock i said what should we call you he looked at me with that sardonic grin of his and said you can call me the guy who called professor longhair the bach of rock and that was that you can check out a video of the entire panel discussion on the cosimo code but i wanted to include this short clip from that day here always at his best when someone else was in the spotlight allen s piano here is positively brilliant i didn t know it would be the last time i d ever see him music is everything to me short of breathing he said and now that music is all we have left rest in peace southern knight this world is a smaller place without you in it posted by red kelly at 11 21 am 3 comments wednesday june 17 2015 mighty sam silent tears amy 990 i just got the sad news that the great mighty sam mcclain has passed on due to complications from a severe stroke he suffered back in april sam had a voice as big as the whole world and a heart to match since i wrote this piece on him almost eight years ago his career had taken off releasing over a dozen albums and touring all over the planet although he was nominated 22 times for a blues foundation award including 12 for soul blues male artist of the year somehow he never won that my friends is a crying shame rest in peace mighty sam silent tears mighty sam mcclain is the genuine article as one of a 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