Got a call from Skid Marx this morning. Skid was on his way home with the Brand New Circusboy cds. He wanted me to have some copies so I ran out and met him at Target.
Skid Marx
I will be covering the Circus Boy cd release party coming up at Corktown... Here is the info:
Saturday, May 7 at 9:00pm - May 8 at 12:00am Location Corktown Tavern 1716 Michigan Ave Detroit, MI
With Special Friends Nuke & The Hell Riders Switch Blade Justice $5 cover OR $7 with Circus Boy CD w/paid admission!
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), better known by his shortened stage name Ray Charles, was an American musician. He was a pioneer in the genre of soul music during the 1950s by fusing rhythm and blues, gospel, and blues styles into his early recordings with Atlantic Records. He also helped racially integrate country and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, most notably with his Modern Sounds albums. While with ABC, Charles became one of the first African-American musicians to be given artistic control by a mainstream record company. Frank Sinatra called Charles "the only true genius in show business."
Rolling Stone ranked Charles number 10 on their list of "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004,and number two on their November 2008 list of "100 Greatest Singers of All Time". In honoring Charles, Billy Joel noted: "This may sound like sacrilege, but I think Ray Charles was more important than Elvis Presley. I don't know if Ray was the architect of rock & roll, but he was certainly the first guy to do a lot of things . . . Who the hell ever put so many styles together and made it work?"
this is the song that got us kicked out of mammoth lakes ski resort. i came close to killing the manager because we packed his house, had a woman propose to her guy, and played pretty well too. in Pecos New Mexico the only thing that saved me was they thought i was a hitman from detroit. well i guess i am...
ok guys i'm doing my sunday soul show. i take request but they'll have to be dedicated to liz and her old cat.
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