From the Kermit Ruffins album, Swing This!
Read MoreRoebuck “Pops” Staples wrote the 1965 blues “Why Am I Treated So Bad” in response to the ongoing struggle for civil rights in the United States and in particularly for The Little Rock Nine - a group of Black students enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in 1957 whom were prevented from integrating the school by Orval Faubus, the governor of Arkansas and the inspiration for Charles Mingus’ 1959 composition “Fables of Faubus.”
Read MoreUpon the news of New Orleans trombonist Keith “Wolf” Anderson’s passing, Treme actor Wendell Pierce remembered him as “a huge trombone sound, a soulful solo, and a musician squatting down in the groove” - the inspiration for Pierce’s own performance as Antoine Batiste.
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