George Brown:A love for the art of music and for the arts as a whole, and a love for performing for people to give them two hours of happiness and relief from the everyday humdrum and all that's going on in this world. We love to perform and it gives us a release as...
Studs Terkel I remember and [dropped?] young Louis up in the '20s. Bricktop No, no, he came up in 1915. Studs Terkel Oh, it was '15. Bricktop Yeah. Florence Mills and Cora Green and I were working at the Panama at 35th and State St., and next door was a place called th...
Just to imagine what it would be like to experience the dream-like state where walking down the main street of a town in Victorian U.S.A. would, at the end of the street, and around the corner, switch the reality into a Western Town and around the end of that street corner it woul...
news to my neighbor’s doorsteps, as I was also, at this time, an avid reader and writer. I would write short stories, lyrics, and even poetry. I liked the idea of writing for a living, which several years later probably lead to me majoring in Journalism at the University of ...
Florida Blossom, Silas Green, Sugarfoot, and all of them fellas. Studs Terkel What, where Sunnyland Slim That's in Mississippi. Studs Terkel In Mississippi. Sunnyland Slim And they don't wanna come out in the fall of the year when they pickin' cotton, you ...