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Burgin’s Book: Doc

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Recent Posts

Salute to Freedom ’63
Picturing Birmingham Jazz
March Around Hatred
Ridiculous? No! (a month of rare photos)
“Kiss June”: Johnny Cash’s To-Do List
Found Family Photos
Back to the Future & boxes of books
On Mortality & Barbecue
Jazz Demons!
Listen to this and feel good.
A New Zine! (Get It!)
Election Day Endorsements (Illustrated)
Blow, Lynn, Blow! (The Lynn Hope Story)
whiteboard cinema
Book of Ancestors: Juliette Hampton Morgan
A blues potluck. Fiddlers. The Beatles. Many hours of music. Hank Williams’s birthday. A party at The Jaybird. Video. More.
Listen! Choking on the Ties that Bind
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Letters to Norah
Alabama Road Trip (Summer 2018)
Tom Joad’s Last Words
Sunday listening: “The Legend of Buford Pusser”
HOT BOIL PNUTS (& other works in progress)
Born To Live: suggested listening
Evolution of a cardboard box (Pt. 2)
This is what writing is like.
Voices Unearthed (some great news)
Jug Bands!
The School Week (highlights)
Evolution of a cardboard box (Part 1)
Spring! Poetry! Can-openers! Dirt!
Girl Scouts, Lost Heroes, & the Soul of Man
“Have you ever heard any music like this before?”
Finally, a beginning.
Jaybird Art: Elnora Spencer & Roger Stephenson
Weekend Listening: Frantz Casseus’s “Haitian Dances”
Create Your Own Creative Writing Exam
New Year’s Hankathon
Audio Archive: Frank “Doc” Adams remembers…
Remembering Ralph (1928-2017)
Blues for Sunday Morning
Make America America
This Is What You Shall Do
Things Found in Books
Today’s playlist (illustrated)
Advice to seniors
Traveling the Spaceways: Writing, Radio, Research, & Art
Keep kicking.
Mother Songs
Thursday!
How to be a poet (drawing)
A Legacy Unsung: The Ethel Harper Story, Part Two
Hail, Hail! Viva, Viva!
The “Singing School Marm” & Sun Ra: The Ethel Harper Story, Part One
Two words.
“Western wear invited. Sportswear accepted.” Happenings ’69.
The Birmingham Sessions
A Valentine’s Playlist, Part Two: Post-Love Songs
True Love & Broken Hearts: A Valentine’s Playlist, Part One
Fake News In The Classroom: One Teacher’s Experience
Happy Birthday, Doc
The Alabama Music Reader: Want to Read This?
Mighty Soul Women
A message for desolate hearts
Table(s) of Contents
A Right Gude Willie Waught, & Musical Obits
I’m On My Way: Singing for Freedom, Singing for Change
Corridos para Trump y Clinton
Happy Blues for John Glenn
Talking in traffic
The Homewood P.O., & Radical Kindness
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House: The Lost Child’s Thanksgiving Leftovers
Picturing the Lost Child: A Few Drawings & Posters
Here Is What We Do Now.
Happy Thanksgiving: The First Post

Rare early photo of Sun Ra (Sonny Blount) in his Birmingham days. I discovered this photo while scouring Birmingham’s black newspapers for local jazz history; this image of the Ripple Rhythm Four appears in two papers from 1940. Sonny is second from left. To my knowledge, this is the oldest known photo of Sun Ra. The daily broadcast was sponsored by Ripple Tobacco. ....Every day this moth, I'm posting a new photo from the history of Birmingham jazz. Stay tuned for more.... #historyofbirminghamjazz #birminghamjazz #birminghamalabama #jazzhistory #jazzmystery #birminghamhistory #sunra #sonnyblount #ripplerhythm #quartet #rarephoto #spaceistheplace #sunraarkestra @sunraarkestra

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