Word: wailer
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HOSPITALIZED. Richard Penniman, 52, Evangelical minister who as the flashy, flamingly androgynous wailer Little Richard helped usher in the rock revolution in the '50s with such hits as Tutti Frutti and Long Tall Sally; with a broken leg and bruised ribs, received when he lost control of a sports car and hit a telephone pole; in Los Angeles...
...guitar solo before the final verse. "Why're you growing up so fast, my boy?" the banjo-plucking Young asks, an appropriate enough question in an age when Ringo Starr is enjoying his new status as a grandfather. The album's final two cuts, "Bound for Glory" and the wailer "Where Is the Highway Tonight?" are classic Nashville shlock...
Clay and the Felkers, Richard Reeves and the Vandellas, Candy and the Blue Skies, Bob Grossman and the Wailer--they kept calling all afternoon. Ol' Rupe the Benificient passed out concert dates--and editorial positions on disco publications like they were going were going out of style...
Bonnie Raitt, another fine locally-produced musician, is playing with Mose Allison at the Music Inn in Lenox Saturday night. Raitt went to Radcliffe for a couple of years, left and learned how to play the blues, and is now a terrific singer and wailer. Allison is a cerebral and somewhat spacey jazzman, well-thought-of by the real cognoscenti...
...does not really lecture; he preaches. He aims primarily at the spirit as opposed to the intellect or the emotions. There's a strain of the old-fashioned Baptist wailer in him, yet it has been disciplined so that he is never out of control. His speech is well-modulated and understated without lending the impression that he is holding anything back. His high regard for Elijah Muhammad is well-evident in his lecture style without becoming an affectation. He presents himself as Ali, and Elijah Muhammad is an integral component of that identity...