Hasil Adkins - World's Greatest Guitarist and One Man Band

Hasil Adkins died this day back in 2005.

Here is the tribute show from FOOL'S PARADISE w/ REX.  Great music, great guests and truly great stories about Hasil.

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The Rise Of Southern Soul

Myron Lee Home Videos

Leo The Monkey Told The Lion One Day

Joyja

Billy Young - All Of Georgia's Children (Get Homesick)

Johnny Jenkins And The Pinetoppers

Love Twist was a hit in Macon, Georgia in the early 1960's.  When The Pinetoppers went back into the studio for the follow up, Otis used the extra studio time to record "These Arms Of Mine".

Newton Collier Month

Newton Collier was decended from Charles Collier who owned the Silas Green Show, one of the country's largest vaudeville troupes.  His parents led a group called The International Sweethearts Of Rhythm.

He started taking piano lessons from Gladys Williams at age 9.  He came for a lesson one day and Sammy Davis Jr. was hanging out on the couch.  Sammy handed Newton his first trumpet and that was all it took.  Newt was listening to Hamp Swain on WIBB and began sneaking into parties.  He was playing with Johnny Jenkins and the Pinetoppers by age 16.  Sam & Dave hired him when he was 17.  He's appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, Merv Griffin and The Beat!!!!

I Take What I Want (1966)

Newton Collier Month

Watch Newton get down on the Ed Sullivan Show with Sam & Dave - '69.

Trumpet man in the middle.

Drive-In Movie Week!

The Drive-In is open over at Network Awesome.

Get On Up Big Bird

April Is Newton Collier Month On Ichiban

Newton not only played trumpet with everyone from the Pinetoppers to Sam & Dave, he is the Keeper Of The Knowledge.  Macon, Georgia is where it all began.

His Name's Big Daddy

Thanks to Rex from Fool's Paradise for this killer diller dedicated to our hero.

From a deep, dark catacomb down in the Fool’s Paradise fur-lined fallout shelter comes this true Big Daddy Roth rarity courtesy of Attila and the Huns. Issued as the B-Side to their anthemic Sonics-rip “Mojo Cools”, this crunchy copy includes an autograph to “Sharon” from Attila himself!

Atilla and The Huns - My Name's Big Daddy