Word: brenston
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rock 'n' roll." Indeed, most of the 26 pioneers chronicled in these pages were forgotten by the time Little Richard came leaping onstage. Wynonie Harris, Amos Milburn, Hardrock Gunter (who, at 33, joined the Army in 1951, "perhaps fearing a Chinese takeover of his beloved Alabama"). Jackie Brenston, Stick McGhee. These are what have been called roots artists, and they sang the kind of mean and raggedy rhythm and blues that still sounds rightly raw and impolite today...
...music . . . in which every aspect of the expanding universe was seen in terms of fried fish, sloppy kisses, gin, and the saxophone whose message transcends knowing." Very hep and very fond, Unsung Heroes also includes an "Archaeologia Rockola," which can direct the untutored reader to such diverse selections as Brenston's Rocket "88"and a Johnny Mercer-Nat King Cole collaboration called Save the Bones for Henry Jones ('Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat). This book is so sharp about the music, and so tantalizing about some of the obscure material, that it really ought...