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ROBERT WADLOW Gravesite

May 27th, 2010 12 comments

Guinness Book of World Record’s tallest man, Robert Wadlow, is buried in a cemetery located just North of St. Louis, just into Illinois. Go to www.death2ur.com for photos and story of Robert’s death. Also see photos from the most recent trip – Death 2ur ‘Ot 9er.

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Lincoln Heights Season 4 Episode 1 – Part 2

April 29th, 2010 9 comments

The Sutton family leaves Lincoln Heights and live with Jenn’s father. Tay is still jealous about Nate. Charles tells Cassie that his mom wants him to live with her in Hawaii. While Cassie and Charles are driving, Two racist teens guys smash into Charles’s car on purpose. Then one of them makes a racists comment to Cassie and Charles begins beating up the guys, and Cassie tries to hold him. The police then come and arrest him and then release him. Eddie informs Cassie that the police wants to question her and Charles about Mac’s death and Charles and Cassie lie. Eddie finds a little girl in a crack house by herself and he brings to her the hospital. Jenn decides to let her stay at their house for the night. While everyone is asleep, the girl takes food, Tay’s insulin, drinks, some of Lizzie’s clothes and leaves. Tay wittnesses this, but doesn’t see her take the insulin. The next day Tay’s stomach doesn’t feel good and he thinks it’s because of Egg Rolls at the Chinese Resturant he works at. Lizzie is starting high school and has to share with middle schoolers because their school’s damages form the earthquake hasn’t been repaired. Charles hasn’t said anything about the money he found in The Sutton’s old house. Charles gets frustrated when Cassie suggests that they tell Eddie that Mac tried to kill them, but Charles says that may be but he still killed Mac by leaving him there and Eddie will have Cassie stop seeing Charles. Charles would probably be locked up for manslaughter doing 10 years minumium. He has her choose between him or her dad. Cassie refused to choose and Charles angrily walks away. Later Cassie visits Charles at his apartment and tells him she’s sorry. Charles says he’s sorry and she can tell the police anything, but Cassie doesn’t want Charles to go to jail. Cassie asked Charles what happened between him and Mac again and he tells her. When everybody from Lincoln Heights celebrate at the Sutton’s house for their success, Cassie tells Charles she isn’t going to say anything. Jenn’s father tells Eddie secretly that he isn’t going to pay the loan for the Sutton’s. Police then come to the house and tell Eddie that Mac’s death wasn’t an accident and Cassie and Charles were the last ones who saw him alive. They need to arrest both of them until they tell the truth. The episode ends with Eddie and Jenn looking scared when Cassie and Charles are unaware that the police are right behind them.

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Lincoln Heights Season 4 Episode 1 – Part 4

April 17th, 2010 6 comments

The Sutton family leaves Lincoln Heights and live with Jenn’s father. Tay is still jealous about Nate. Charles tells Cassie that his mom wants him to live with her in Hawaii. While Cassie and Charles are driving, Two racist teens guys smash into Charles’s car on purpose. Then one of them makes a racists comment to Cassie and Charles begins beating up the guys, and Cassie tries to hold him. The police then come and arrest him and then release him. Eddie informs Cassie that the police wants to question her and Charles about Mac’s death and Charles and Cassie lie. Eddie finds a little girl in a crack house by herself and he brings to her the hospital. Jenn decides to let her stay at their house for the night. While everyone is asleep, the girl takes food, Tay’s insulin, drinks, some of Lizzie’s clothes and leaves. Tay wittnesses this, but doesn’t see her take the insulin. The next day Tay’s stomach doesn’t feel good and he thinks it’s because of Egg Rolls at the Chinese Resturant he works at. Lizzie is starting high school and has to share with middle schoolers because their school’s damages form the earthquake hasn’t been repaired. Charles hasn’t said anything about the money he found in The Sutton’s old house. Charles gets frustrated when Cassie suggests that they tell Eddie that Mac tried to kill them, but Charles says that may be but he still killed Mac by leaving him there and Eddie will have Cassie stop seeing Charles. Charles would probably be locked up for manslaughter doing 10 years minumium. He has her choose between him or her dad. Cassie refused to choose and Charles angrily walks away. Later Cassie visits Charles at his apartment and tells him she’s sorry. Charles says he’s sorry and she can tell the police anything, but Cassie doesn’t want Charles to go to jail. Cassie asked Charles what happened between him and Mac again and he tells her. When everybody from Lincoln Heights celebrate at the Sutton’s house for their success, Cassie tells Charles she isn’t going to say anything. Jenn’s father tells Eddie secretly that he isn’t going to pay the loan for the Sutton’s. Police then come to the house and tell Eddie that Mac’s death wasn’t an accident and Cassie and Charles were the last ones who saw him alive. They need to arrest both of them until they tell the truth. The episode ends with Eddie and Jenn looking scared when Cassie and Charles are unaware that the police are right behind them.

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Lincoln Heights Season 4 Episode 1 – Part 5

April 7th, 2010 15 comments

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The Sutton family leaves Lincoln Heights and live with Jenn’s father. Tay is still jealous about Nate. Charles tells Cassie that his mom wants him to live with her in Hawaii. While Cassie and Charles are driving, Two racist teens guys smash into Charles’s car on purpose. Then one of them makes a racists comment to Cassie and Charles begins beating up the guys, and Cassie tries to hold him. The police then come and arrest him and then release him. Eddie informs Cassie that the police wants to question her and Charles about Mac’s death and Charles and Cassie lie. Eddie finds a little girl in a crack house by herself and he brings to her the hospital. Jenn decides to let her stay at their house for the night. While everyone is asleep, the girl takes food, Tay’s insulin, drinks, some of Lizzie’s clothes and leaves. Tay wittnesses this, but doesn’t see her take the insulin. The next day Tay’s stomach doesn’t feel good and he thinks it’s because of Egg Rolls at the Chinese Resturant he works at. Lizzie is starting high school and has to share with middle schoolers because their school’s damages form the earthquake hasn’t been repaired. Charles hasn’t said anything about the money he found in The Sutton’s old house. Charles gets frustrated when Cassie suggests that they tell Eddie that Mac tried to kill them, but Charles says that may be but he still killed Mac by leaving him there and Eddie will have Cassie stop seeing Charles. Charles would probably be locked up for manslaughter doing 10 years minumium. He has her choose between him or her dad. Cassie refused to choose and Charles angrily walks away. Later Cassie visits Charles at his apartment and tells him she’s sorry. Charles says he’s sorry and she can tell the police anything, but Cassie doesn’t want Charles to go to jail. Cassie asked Charles what happened between him and Mac again and he tells her. When everybody from Lincoln Heights celebrate at the Sutton’s house for their success, Cassie tells Charles she isn’t going to say anything. Jenn’s father tells Eddie secretly that he isn’t going to pay the loan for the Sutton’s. Police then come to the house and tell Eddie that Mac’s death wasn’t an accident and Cassie and Charles were the last ones who saw him alive. They need to arrest both of them until they tell the truth. The episode ends with Eddie and Jenn looking scared when Cassie and Charles are unaware that the police are right behind them.

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Lincoln Heights Season 4 Episode 1 – Part 3

April 4th, 2010 9 comments

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The Sutton family leaves Lincoln Heights and live with Jenn’s father. Tay is still jealous about Nate. Charles tells Cassie that his mom wants him to live with her in Hawaii. While Cassie and Charles are driving, Two racist teens guys smash into Charles’s car on purpose. Then one of them makes a racists comment to Cassie and Charles begins beating up the guys, and Cassie tries to hold him. The police then come and arrest him and then release him. Eddie informs Cassie that the police wants to question her and Charles about Mac’s death and Charles and Cassie lie. Eddie finds a little girl in a crack house by herself and he brings to her the hospital. Jenn decides to let her stay at their house for the night. While everyone is asleep, the girl takes food, Tay’s insulin, drinks, some of Lizzie’s clothes and leaves. Tay wittnesses this, but doesn’t see her take the insulin. The next day Tay’s stomach doesn’t feel good and he thinks it’s because of Egg Rolls at the Chinese Resturant he works at. Lizzie is starting high school and has to share with middle schoolers because their school’s damages form the earthquake hasn’t been repaired. Charles hasn’t said anything about the money he found in The Sutton’s old house. Charles gets frustrated when Cassie suggests that they tell Eddie that Mac tried to kill them, but Charles says that may be but he still killed Mac by leaving him there and Eddie will have Cassie stop seeing Charles. Charles would probably be locked up for manslaughter doing 10 years minumium. He has her choose between him or her dad. Cassie refused to choose and Charles angrily walks away. Later Cassie visits Charles at his apartment and tells him she’s sorry. Charles says he’s sorry and she can tell the police anything, but Cassie doesn’t want Charles to go to jail. Cassie asked Charles what happened between him and Mac again and he tells her. When everybody from Lincoln Heights celebrate at the Sutton’s house for their success, Cassie tells Charles she isn’t going to say anything. Jenn’s father tells Eddie secretly that he isn’t going to pay the loan for the Sutton’s. Police then come to the house and tell Eddie that Mac’s death wasn’t an accident and Cassie and Charles were the last ones who saw him alive. They need to arrest both of them until they tell the truth. The episode ends with Eddie and Jenn looking scared when Cassie and Charles are unaware that the police are right behind them.

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Mississippi Highways and Crossroads ??

February 6th, 2010 8 comments

This is a video slideshow tribute to The Mississippi Delta region which is considered to be the birthplace of the Blues.

The most widely known legend surrounding Robert Johnson says that he sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 61 and U.S. Highway 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi in exchange for prowess in playing the guitar. Actually, the location Johnson made reference to is a short distance away from that intersection. The legend was told mainly by Son House, but finds no corroboration in any of Johnson’s work, despite titles like “Me and the Devil Blues” and “Hellhound on My Trail”. With this said, the song “Cross Road Blues” is both widely and loosely interpreted by many as a descriptive encounter of Johnson selling his soul. The older Tommy Johnson (no relation, although it is speculated that they were cousins) also claimed to have sold his soul to the Devil. The story goes that if one would go to the crossroads a little before midnight and begin to play the guitar, a large black man would come up to the aspiring guitarist, retune his guitar and then hand it back. At this point (so the legend goes) the guitarist had sold his soul to become a virtuoso (A similar legend even surrounded virtuoso violinist Niccolo Paganini a century before.)

Seventy or so years ago, a man who was then known as Robert Johnson passed away. He was poisoned, presumably by a houseman/barkeep whose wife had been flirting with him on an August Evening. Around the same time, a king pin of the then small, homely music industry sent out a middle man to find Johnson, in hopes of striking a record deal. It took until almost a year after Johnson’s death for word to get back to the industry that Johnson was, in fact, deceased. This is not a surprise, considering that the spread of news at the time, let alone in poor black Mississippi (or really, where ever he may have taken up residence at the time), was reserved to word of mouth.

Robert Johnson is arguably the most important, influential, and respected blues artist of all time. Back in the days when Johnson was still with us, recording equipment was sparse. Johnson recorded a grand total of forty one cuts, twelve of them alternate takes.

In 1900, Bill and Annie Patton and their 12 children took up residence at Dockery Farms. Their nine-year-old, Charlie, took to following guitarist Henry Sloan to his performances at picnics, fish-fries, and social gatherings at boarding houses where the day laborers lived. By 1910, Patton was
himself a professional musician, playing songs such as his own “Pony Blues,” often with fellow guitarist Willie Brown. Within the next five years Patton had come to influence Tommy Johnson, considered one of the best ragtime-blues guitarists of the day, who had traveled to Dockery. He had also joined the Chatmon brothers who recorded using the name the “Mississippi Sheiks” at their musical jobs throughout the area.

Even though there were no juke joints on the farm, Charlie Patton and other bluesmen, drawn to Dockery by its fame, used the plantation as their base. They would travel the network of state roads around Dockery Farms to communities large enough to support audiences that loved the blues. One of these roads, Highway 61, from Memphis to Vicksburg, was immortalized by 1960s folk/rock icon Bob Dylan. This was “blues country.” The plantation was located between the towns of Cleveland and Ruleville, just south of the state prison at Parchman and north of Indianola, the birthplace of the blues guitar great B.B. King. Shops in the area sold “race records.” These were typically blues sung by women like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and produced presumably for African-American buyers. In 1929 Charlie Patton recorded 14 songs for Paramount Records, featuring his gruff voice and rhythmic, percussive plucking. They immediately became top sellers, and resulted eventually in his second recording sessions, producing 26 titles, for the ARC company in New York in 1934.

But it was Patton’s live performances that inspired and influenced fans such as Robert Johnson, Bukka White, Ed ‘Son’ House, Chester Burnett (also known as Howlin’ Wolf), and Roebuck ‘Pop’ Staples. These important artists in blues history either lived at or passed through Dockery Farms. Bluesmen Sonnyboy Williamson and Leadbelly were among ‘guests of the state’ at nearby Parchman Prison during the same era.

Besides his blues guitar playing and singing, Patton was well known for his stage moves. He danced while playing and swinging his guitar around, often playing it behind his back. These crowd-pleasing antics imitated by rock stars including Jimi Hendrix have survived today in the acts of bluesmen such as Buddy Guy.

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Doctor Ross : “Thirty Two Twenty” – (Fortune Records) Flint, MI blues!

December 17th, 2009 5 comments

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Doctor Ross was a one man band and blues master!

Doctor Ross : “Thirty Two Twenty”
1958 Blues straight outta Flint, MI

BIO:
Doctor Ross
October 21, 1925 May 28, 1993 “Doctor Ross the harmonica boss”,

Biography by Jason Ankeny
Isaiah “Doc” Ross was a throwback to a bygone era; a true one-man band, he played harmonica, acoustic guitar, bass drum and high-hat simultaneously, creating a mighty racket harking back to the itinerant country-blues players wandering the Delta region during the earlier years of the 20th century. Born Charles Isaiah Ross on October 21, 1925 in Tunica, Mississippi, he took early inspiration from the music of Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller and Sonny Boy Williamson I; primarily a harpist — hence his nickname “The Harmonica Boss” — he only added the other instruments in his arsenal in order to play a USO show while a member of the army during World War II. (The “Doc” moniker was acquired because he carried his harmonicas in a doctor’s bag.) Upon his release from the military, Ross settled in Memphis, where he became a popular club fixture as well as the host of his own radio show on station WDIA; during his club residency he was witness to a number of brutal murders, however, and swore off appearances in such venues during the later years of his life. During the early 1950s, Ross recorded his first sides — among them “Chicago Breakdown” — for labels including Sun and Chess; in 1954 he settled in Flint, Michigan, where he went to work as a janitor for General Motors, a position he held until retiring. In 1965 he cut his first full-length LP, Call the Doctor, and that same year mounted his first European tour; as the years passed Ross performed live with decreasing frequency, however, and was infamous for backing out of shows to catch his beloved Detroit Tigers on television. Upon winning a Grammy for his 1981 album Rare Blues, he experienced a career resurgence, and played festival dates to great acclaim prior to his death on May 28, 1993.

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