Spinning a few Soul Groovers on 45 and one's personal!
Joe Tex/ Ain't Gonna Bump No More With No Big Fat Woman (this is personal. One day in 1988, I had to share a Trailways seat with a 400 Pound big Black Fat Woman. My short left hit met her right. I was in pain by the time the bus went from Murfreesboro to Manchester, Tennessee. By the time I arrived in Knoxville, my hip was out of socket, I was frustrated and ticked after 200 slow miles to Knoxville, and mom and step dad picking me up to go to Oak Ridge, Tennessee and home. I had to put up with the same Big Fat Woman on the Sunday evening return trip. I was in pain for a solid week. And on that Saturday, I got treated to time away from Tennessee Rehabilitation Center in Smyrna and the Nashville recording studios and spending time at Masterfonics. I got treated to Supper at the Nashville Stockyard, and owned by Buddy Killen who produced this awesome Soul Groover 45, and he introduced me to a friendly Black guy, and it was no other than Joe Tex. Joe and I got on and he was a friend to the end.). Next time I went to Oak Ridge to see my folks, Joe had a limousine and often private planes to Knoxville. He treated me like his lost son. Buddy Killen never charged me for a meal to the end of my time there. I got the whole Dial 45 and LP catalogue for free. And lots of Nashville friends in the business. Amazing what hanging out in a Smyrna music store gets you, you meet Harlan Howard, and meet Owen Bradley and the Nashville elite, and get to ply your skills and hang out on sessions. And shown a great time!
Luther Ingram/ If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want To Be Right)
Rose Royce/ Car Wash
Rose Royce/ I Want To Get Next To You
This post exposes a dimension of me you now learned. KT plays records, and knows how to cut fine records too. And has friends in Nashville from the last of the oldtimers. One 1986 Smyrna music store meetup paid dividends, and once befriended made me a person of respect and interest to the cause of good music.