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  Elvis Presley's Ex Wife Priscilla Wants You To Stop Calling Him A Racist

  While around here we don’t like to make it a habit to speak ill of the dead, what we are indeed obligated to do is to tell the truth, and the truth is that Elvis Pressley was a racist thief of a musician. However, according to his ex wife Priscilla, we should all reconsider our stance on the matter due to the fact that the man had Black friends.

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  ‘You Win Again’: Mournful Hank Williams Inspires Countless Covers

  Roy Orbison, Rick Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many more covered Hank’s ‘You Win Again.’

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  John 'Papa' Gros delights Hygienic Art Park crowd in Friday concert

  Jun. 6—NEW LONDON — With this collective and giddy sense of (almost) post-COVID freedom we're all experiencing, it's almost easy to forget Those Who Would Capitalize on our new desire to DO THINGS. Take, for example, the airline industry. My wife, Eileen, and I had been planning a trip to New Orleans — where we were married and where we've spent a lot of time over the years — when the plague ...

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  Former Papa Grows Funk leader brings solo piano to NL

  Jun. 2—Summer in New Orleans? Even the humidity sweats. It's as though someone sprinkled fire ants on the sun. And all but the most pious commit heinous crimes, hoping to get sent to Hell for some blessed relief from the heat. Which is one way of explaining that, yes, there's an excellent reason so many New Orleans and Louisiana musicians hop on the tour bus in the summer — with instructions ...

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  Lloyd Price, R&B Pioneer Known as ‘Mr. Personality,’ Dies at 88

  Lloyd Price, the ‘50s R&B vocalist whose early singles were among the first to attract attention from the nascent rock ‘n’ roll audience, died Thursday. He was 88. Maxwell Entertainment owner Rickey Poppell posted the news on Facebook, saying, “My friend and Lloyd Price’s manager, Tom Trapani, just called to let me know that our […]

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  Dick Alen, William Morris’ Music Head and Longtime Agent for Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Aretha Franklin, Dies at 89

  Dick Alen, a music agent renowned for a six-decade-plus career that included representing icons like Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, died of natural causes Nov. 27. He was 89. Before Alen retired in 2010, he had spent the last 39 years of his career at what was formerly the William Morris Agency and […]

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  Wynonna Previews New EP With Cover of Slim Harpo’s ‘King Bee’

  'Recollections' to feature Wynonna's versions of songs by John Prine, Fats Domino

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  Remembering Little Richard’s Kind Heart and One-of-a-Kind Soul

  Peter Guralnick recalls two encounters with the rock & roll legend

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  Rock 'n' roll pioneer Dave Bartholomew laid to rest

  Hundreds of family members, friends, fans and fellow musicians gathered in New Orleans Monday to bid farewell to rock 'n' roll pioneer Dave Bartholomew. A trumpet-shaped flower arrangement stood next to the open casket at the music-filled service at St. Gabriel the Archangel Church, The Times-Picayune/ The New Orleans Advocate reported . Musicians who came to pay their respects included Robin Barnes, Kermit Ruffins, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson, Charles Moore, Irvin Mayfield, Ivan Neville and Dr

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  Dave Bartholomew, Songwriter and Fats Domino Collaborator, Dead at 100

  New Orleans legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee co-wrote "Ain't That a Shame," produced Domino's "Blueberry Hill"

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