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WAYNE JACKSON NEWS
(December 20, 2009)


Karla Redding & Wayne Jackson

Great Stax trumpetist Wayne Jackson has a regular site with lots of news and photos. See at http://www.sweetmedicinemusic.com/NEWS.html. Among others, here is a photo of himself with Otis' daughter Karla Redding.

 

AN OTIS REDDING DVD REISSUE WITH HIS BEST LIVE PERFORMANCES
(October 1, 2009)

A DVD has justy been issued at a cheap price, including Otis' best livre performances, i.e. his shows during the Hit The Road Stax european tour in march-april 67 (Oslo show) and at the Monterey Pop Festival in june 67, a few months before his death. The quality is fine as well as the liner notes. It can be ordered on Amazon and others. It can also be ordered direct at: www.wienerworld.com.

 

DEANIE PARKER RETURNS TO SONGWRITING
(August 16, 2009)


Deanie us moving into the film business, as executive producer of "I Am A Man," a documentary about the 1968 sanitation strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis. She co-wrote the title song.

"Here's the deal: I promised myself that when I retired, I would start writing songs again, so I established some benchmarks, timelines to force myself to begin.

Earlier this month, Parker cut the song at Bomar's Downtown studio, using a group of musicians that included 21-year-old drummer Ryan Peel and 28-year-old vocalist Devin Crutcher, who were born well after the 1968 sanitation strike.

Jonathan Epstein, director/co-producer of "I Am A Man" and a managing partner at Running Pony Productions, says Parker continually seeks challenges.

"I've known Deanie Parker the administrator, Deanie Parker the marketing woman, and Deanie Parker the fundraiser," he says, "but other than digging through the Stax archives to give her grief on her singing career, I never really knew Deanie Parker the songwriter."

"I Am A Man" co-producer John Hubbell sees the song as an affirmation for the people who survived the sanitation strike.

Hubbell, a recent transplant to Memphis, describes Parker as "a silver bullet, unswerving in course."

Fred Jones confirms that sentiment.

"That's part of why Deanie Parker is Deanie Parker," he says. "She's not going with the prevailing wind. She's going with her heart. She hasn't forgotten about Memphis history, and she's creative enough to put a story like this together, and do it in a first-class way."

 

LUTHER INGRAM'S 2 STAX/KO-KO LP'S REISSUED
(March 24, 2009)

Ace Records (UK) have just reissued the 2 great LP's recorded on Stax' distributed and recorded Ko-Ko Records: If Loving You Is Wrong and I've Been Here All The Time.

They had already reissued all his 45's. The list of tracks:

I'VE BEEN HERE ALL THE TIME - (KOKO 2201)

Ain't That Loving You (For More Reasons Than One)/You We're Made For Me/Oh Baby You Can Depend On Me/My Honey And Me/I'll Just Call You Honey/Since You Don't Want Me//Missing You/I'll Love You Until The End/Be Good To Me Baby/Pity For The Lonely/To The Other Man/Ghetto Train.

(IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG) I DON'T WANT TO BE RIGHT - (KOKO 2202)

(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right/I'll Be Your Shelter (In Time Of Storm)/Always/Dying And Crying/Help Me Love//I'm Trying To Sing A Message To You/I Remember/I'll Love You Until The End/Love Ain't Gonna Run Me Away/I Can't Stop.

2 ISAAC HAYES CD REISSUES
(January 16, 2009)

 

 

As a tribute to Isaac Hayes' death on August 10, 2009, Concord reissues the Black Moses album (1971) on 2 CD's and the Juicy Fruit one, originally issued on ABC in 1976.

SOUL MEN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
(November 3, 2008)

The soundtrack to the hit comedy featuring new music by John Legend, Anthony Hamilton, Me'shell Ndegocello and The Real Deal (a.k.a. Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac), plus Old School classics by Isaac Hayes, William Bell, and more. Out November 4. List of tracks:

1. Soul Men (Anthony Hamilton & The Bo-Keys)

2. I'm Your Puppet (John Legend, Bernie Mac & Samual L. Jackson)

3. Private Number (Chris Pierce, Leela James, & The Bo-Keys)

4. Water (Meshell N'degocello)

5. Never Can Say Goodbye (Isaac Hayes)

6. Boogie Ain't Nothing (But Getting' Down) Bernie Mac & Samuel L. Jackson

7. Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings

8. Memphis Train (Ryan Shaw & Bo-Keys)

9. Comfort Me (Sharon Leal)

10. You Don't Know What You Mean (To a Lover Like Me) The Sugarman 3 feat. Lee Fields)

11. I've Never Found A Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) Eddie Floyd

12. Do Your Thing (Bernie Mac & Samuel L. Jackson

 

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