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Swampers drummer, Muscle Shoals Sound Studio cofounder Roger Hawkins has died
Advance Local ^ | Updated 5:43 PM; Today 1:31 PM | Matt Wake

Posted on 05/20/2021 7:00:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise

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To: llevrok

Add to that list 20 Feet From Stardom

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyUJcA8Zfo


21 posted on 05/20/2021 9:39:16 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Mr. Mojo; Pelham; Travis McGee

Thanks for pinging me

I did not know they all played on two of Traffics better later works

Nor did I know they recorded Shootout at Strawberry Hill studios Jamaica

That was a hippie enclave in my day and one of the few prolific growing regions west of St Ann’s ....Bobs parish of birth.....Ocho

I read Chris Blackwell has built a famous hotel resort up near Newcastle above Kingston now ....called Strawberry Hill

You can chopper in from Norman Manley.....quite a quick relief from Kingston and port royal up to Newcastle....where at times you can watch JDF in dress uniform do parade on the grounds of old Butchers Apron military installation

You drive right thru the old stone fort....in cool misty climate at 3500 foot

On a clear day the view is spectacular ....you could almost see Sierra Nevada above Santa Marta

They do say on a clear day you can see the Sierra Maestra north d
From blue mountain peak...

Man did I used to know evey inch of that rather small island

They now boast four lane highways....I’d miss those old lanes and trees overhanging....duppy land


22 posted on 05/20/2021 10:24:27 PM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio )
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23 posted on 05/20/2021 10:36:38 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: a fool in paradise

Perhaps his most immortal groove, and he created many of those, powers 1966 Pickett smash “Land of 1000 Dances.” Particularly the infectious breakdown pattern, played on Hawkins’ gold-sparkle Ludwig kit and Speed King kickdrum pedal. That beat has shook many tailfeathers and souls. And always will.”””

Every once in a while I’ll Bluetooth a song to the soundbar and say to my 10 yr old “Hey, son, wanna hear the greatest song ever written”? One day it was a live version of Land of a Thousand Dances.He started dancing and bopping around. I thought it was sarcasam except that he kept it up for the entire extend live version...

RIP, session dude, you nailed it.


24 posted on 05/21/2021 3:57:59 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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GOP lawmakers enraged as Biden secretly buses, flies migrants into Tennessee in ‘the dead of night’
The Blaze ^ | May 20, 2021 | Phil Shiver
Posted on 5/21/2021, 7:03:00 AM by gattaca

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3961120/posts

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee are demanding answers in response to shocking news that the Biden administration is secretly busing and flying scores of illegal immigrants into the state.

Reports that the Biden administration has been moving thousands of unaccompanied minors and tens of thousands of migrant adults — presumably without court dates — into the country amid the ongoing border crisis have circulated since February. But this week the news hit home for Tennessee lawmakers who, alarmed that the administration is seemingly doing so “under the cover of darkness,” have opted to speak out about the matter.

After WRCB-TV broke the story on Wednesday night that “Chattanooga’s Wilson Air Center is receiving planes carrying migrant children who are being bused to multiple southeastern cities during overnight hours,” the state’s two Republican senators lashed out at the administration.

“It is absolutely unacceptable if the Biden Administration is facilitating a mass migration under cover of darkness without any input or oversight from Tennesseans and the affected communities,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn wrote in a social media post Wednesday night.

In a statement to Fox News, Sen. Bill Hagerty said, “I have warned for months that President Biden’s failure at the border would result in a systematic resettling of migrants in our communities, burdening our schools, hospitals, and law enforcement agencies, and bringing an increase in drug trafficking and human smuggling.”


25 posted on 05/21/2021 4:19:35 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: a fool in paradise
I took a tour of the Mussel Shoals Sound Studio a few years ago. Not really a very big place, but a lot of create music was created there.

Hard to imagine, but nobody knew what to do with Etta James until she recorded there. Aretha Franklin was foundering as as well until they found her sound.

26 posted on 05/21/2021 6:36:22 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: a fool in paradise

RIP.


27 posted on 05/21/2021 9:03:01 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (DEFEAT THE COUP D'ETAT BY THE STALINAZI DERP STATE !)
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To: a fool in paradise

Thanks for posting this. It has become a joyous rabbit hole all day today going back through all the Swampers’ amazing careers.


28 posted on 05/21/2021 1:02:18 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: nicollo

I could see that happening


29 posted on 05/21/2021 1:30:44 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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