Saturday, November 18, 2023

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The Devil at the Confluence 2024 Calendar - Available now! Based upon the out-of-print and highly sought-after book, Devil At The Confluence...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

It’s time for a repost of this classic St. Louis Halloween story from the late 1800s.

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 The  Ghost Of The St Louis Blues. Jessie Simms lived at the first house on Linden Street at Twelfth, now Tucker Blvd. Her boyfriend was Ale...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

The St. Louis Tickle and the Funky Butt.

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“ What is the implication, a smell, a lack of hygiene, or worse? The name seems more suitable for a dirty joint in a bordello district ” ...
Thursday, June 9, 2016

Jelly Roll Morton didn't record this song and never said he did.

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   In the midcentury revival of early jazz, record companies marketed discoveries like Leadbelly and rediscoveries like Jelly Roll Morton ...
Sunday, January 3, 2016

The American epic story to be told.

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Last summer I was consulted for the upcoming PBS / BBC documentary, American Epic. http://www.americanepic.com The project promises to be a...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Frankie was a good girl.

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Frankie was a good girl. Frankie Baker was not a prostitute and she didn't run a brothel. And here we go again, ruining l...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

A memorial to St. Louis' jazz gentleman Clark Terry.

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    "St. Louis is a jazz town - it was all around my neighborhood, and I heard it every day."   St. Louis musicians rarely are d...