Toni Green. Photo: Paul Harris

TONI GREEN

As a follow-up to Anders Lillsunde’s interview with the dynamic performer Toni Green in Memphis in 2008 (see article in Jefferson 156), Paul Harris caught up with her at the 2009 Porretta Soul Festival in Italy.

Anders’ interview was published in English on the Jefferson website where Toni was quoted as saying that she had been to Porretta ‘several times’. I had first seen her there in 2007 and believed the current visit to be her second. She confirmed that this was so and that she had meant that she had visited Italy several times.

Written by Anders Lillsunde | 22 October 2008

Karen Wolfe

  Karen Wolfe

On the verge of  breakthrough

The acclaimed Swedish public schools for music education has one definitive superior; the American church within the gospel belt. According to Larry Chambers at Ecko Records, only in Tennessee there´re over 500 gospel groups to be found. The first training starts within the church. Further education takes place as background singers, before the artists are skilled enough to start on their own, if they have the right capability.

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Written by Anders Lillsunde | 12 December 2009

Lee Shot Williams

Lee Shot Williams

a piece of music history

Lee Shot Williams was born the 21st of May 1938 in Lexington, Mississippi. He moved to Chicagoat the end of the 50’s. Like many of the artists moving to Chicago at that time, his background too was in gospel music and early R&B. The old country blues singers had lost their position as a background for a music career.

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Written by Anders Lillsunde | 08 January 2006

Denise LaSalle

Denise LaSalle

Det finns fortsättningsvis artister som i sann mening representerar rötterna för den svarta musiken. De är framgångsrika bland afroamerikanerna med sin soul och soulblues, men röner ingen uppskattning hos den vita bluespubliken och dess förståsigpåare. Det är obegripligt hur valkommittéerna för Grammysar och W.C. Handy Awarder lyckats kurva sig förbi en av musikstilens mest betydande artister, nämligen Denise LaSalle, som alltid varit trogen sitt ursprung och sin inriktning.

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