Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Canadiana

At this link is a fine radio documentary about R&B artist Jackie Shane. Shane was a gay man from Nashville who managed to be as out as you could get in Toronto in the 50s and 60s. Being black was a bit better in Canada than in the US, but being gay was still a lot of trouble.

There's a long monologue in his cover of Money that's worth hearing.





Posted by Substance McGravitas at 2:07 PM

5 comments:

J— said...

Wow, good stuff (the songs on You Tube; I'll get to the documentary later).

March 2, 2010 at 2:54 PM
Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

There's been quite a bit written about the role of gay musicians in the African-American church music tradition.

March 2, 2010 at 5:47 PM
Substance McGravitas said...

Little Richard came outta that.

March 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM
mikey said...

I dunno what it is, exactly, but the pack o'smokes in the bottom corner makes me wanna fire one up.

And I haven't had a cigarette in something like eight years.

And I'm utterly convinced they stink.

But still....

March 2, 2010 at 8:04 PM
M. Bouffant said...

Ummm, smokes.

Nicotine.

March 3, 2010 at 12:58 AM

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