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Spiders from Kenya
ARC has written extensively on the one time common 45 adaptors, and just recently, in a self described 70-89s text, “Retrohell,” the claim is made that these were called “45 Spiders”. Makes sense, given the shape. But I never heard the term. … read more >>
“the Frank Sinatra of Jamaica”
You know for over 25 years now I have been reading and jotting down all the wrong things I’ve discovered in the review and indexes and odd-numbered pages of music writings. When I read that another favorite singer Gregory Isaacs had died,… read more >>
Ties that Bind
Staying in NYC for the weekend for this and that, for both of them, saw and heard some very nice performances by Khaira (or Haira) Arby and Laurie Anderson. On Saturday Khaira , ‘The Nightingale of the North,” aka, “The Aretha Franklin… read more >>
Capitol Value!
Nigerian Musician Sonny Okosuns Dies
Nigerian composer, singer and activist Sonny Okosuns died May 24 in Washington DC of Cancer. Not well known in the States, Sonny’s great voice (the only African voice) may have been noticed on Sun City, the anti-apartheid album from 1985 or on… read more >>