One-Track Mind

•“Po’ Black Sheep:” My Introduction to Black String Bands

I remember the first time I heard the remastered version of Nathan Frazier and Frank Patterson’s “Po’ Black Sheep.” It’s on the compilation John Work III: Recording Black Culture, released in 2008 by Spring Fed Records. To hear this song in true-quality audio fidelity was a revelation!

One-Track Mind – Issue 20

One Morning in May

Alice Gerrard

When I started my first semester at Antioch College in 1953, I saw people sitting around under trees playing guitars and singing—and having fun! I knew this was for me. My mother was a musician, but when I was growing…

One-Track Mind – Issue 20

“Green Onions” and a Gran Torino

shirlette ammons

From the back seat of her aunt’s turquoise Gran Torino, shirlette ammons hears Booker T. and the MGs for the first time.