RE-READ THE WOLFMAN JACK 1995 BIO - GREAT BOOK! - & JUST STARTING TO READ - 'CHITLIN' CIRCUIT' by PRESTON LAUTERBACH

WOLFMAN JACK WRITES: "So much energy rolled off that (XERF, La Frontera) transmitter tower, it vibrated the filaments in the headlights [of the] ... dozen or so banged-up cars and trucks [that] were parked around the station ... until they lit up." "The 250,000 watts of power", meant that "any bird that flew too close while the power was on would seize up with a birdie heart attack and fall to the ground."

PRESTON LAUTERBACH WRITES: "The chitlin' circuit story that unfolded through old newpapers, interviews with aged jitterbugs, torn scrapbooks, and city directories crossed unexpected backroads: the numbers racket, hair straighteners, multiple murders, human catastrophe, commercial sex, bootlegging, international scandal, female impersonation, and a real female who could screw a light bulb into herself - and turn it on."

THESE ARE TWO WONDERFULS BOOKS (available in hardcover).

THE WOLFMAN JACK BOOK CAN BE BOUGHT ON THE INTERNET FOR AS LOW AS $1.09!

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LATEST WAGRadio FAVOURITE SOUL MUSIC MAGAZINE - 'IN THE BASEMENT' - PUBLISHES SPRING 2009 ISSUE

One of our favourite magazines has just published its 2009 spring issue - and it is, as always, chock-full of shared knowledge about soul music.  

In this 'In The Basement' [#54] - can be found the esoteric - 'THE STORY OF VIRGINIA SOUL MUSIC' - as well as the well-known, oft-told -  JIMMY HUGHES - QUALIFIED SOUL MAN . . . but then again, within that well known bio are facts like Mr. Hughes' being the cousin of PERCY SLEDGE.  Even if we knew that - we'd forgotten. 

Sweet Daddy Fonk Wong is known to 'borrow' ZigZagZ copy of the mag and read it from cover to cover at least four or five times and "...he still don't take it all in".

Along with the ton of well written articles this 78 page issue reviews over eighty brand new soul Cd's as well as older 45's and vinyl.  Said Sweet Daddy: "This is a true treasure trove of trivia that I wish I had in my basement." 

IN THE BASEMENT doesn't sell on any Canadian West Coast book or magazine store shelves.  Ya can't buy it off the rack in Seattle, Washington or Portland, Oregon or any of the major U.S. cities on the Western North American Seaboard either.  In other words, it has to be subscribed to.

To do that . . . 

email:  itb@basement-group.co.uk

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