Nick Tosches Month

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Did That Really Happen? Solomon Burke Plays Country!

By Ken Eppstein 5/2013

Nick Tosches Month

Lyrics by Nick Tosches.

I'm In Love With Your Knees

By Nick Tosches and Austin Thomas.

Nick Tosches Month

Here's a great essay written by Joe Bonomo about our hero.

Two Pizzaburgers Please!

Joe Houston & a Half Ton Of Glamor, Jet Magazine, 1955.

Joe Houston  -  Two Pizzaburgers Please

Nick Tosches Month

Nick Tosches Month

Super Heavy Blues Express

Forty-two years ago today in downtown Atlanta, the Super Heavy Blues Express came to town.  And what a truly astonishing line-up -  Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Al Hibbler, with Jelly Roll as an added attraction.

Via the pages of Atlanta's radical underground newspaper The Great Speckled Bird and the Georgia State University Library Archives.

The Lovely Jewel Brynner

Singer Jewel Brynner (yes, her name was a nod to chrome-domed actor Yul Brynner) is shown here in early 1959, performing at Pittsburgh's Hi-Top Lounge with Wee Walkin' Willie.  Via the Jet archives.  Photo by Clarence Pennywell Jr.

Fast Freight

Happy birthday, Ritchie ("Arvee Allens") Valens

I Like Peanut Butter

The Four Blazers - Peanut Butter