Printer's Alley 

The New Album by Stacy Mitchhart 
by Raul Watson 

When Hank Garland was burning up the Nashville studios with his guitar virtuosity, the producers were unsettled by his frequent visits to those seedier clubs up on Printer’s Alley. 
Fast forward almost three quarters of a century and the jazz and blues coming from up the hill has the reputation as the more cultured part of the Honky Tonk district. And it was another guitar hero that sparked the transformation. 
Twenty five years ago Stacy…

She’ll Put a Little Bit of the Devil in You 

By Raul Watson 

Our favorite songs tend to evoke memories from our past; who we knew when we loved that song.  Those are the songs we think of as great, but the reason they resonate so powerfully in our memories is they were great songs from the start (at least one would hope).  Great being that unquantifiable quality that makes poetry resonate inside us as if we know what the poet has been through and the empathy is reciprocal.  As though the poetry was written…

Phillip Paul 

BY RAJULIGAN ON FEBRUARY 4, 2022 

August 11, 1925 – January 30, 2022 

CoVid Takes Another Legend 

If Rock and Roll has a heartbeat, it was the invention of legendary jazz drummer Phillip Paul.  We all know Rock was born in Memphis but conceived at King Records in Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Born and raised in Harlem, he was playing with Dizzy Gillespie when he was in his early twenties.   In 1951 Tiny Bradshaw invited him to join his band playing the Cotton Club in Newport, Kentucky.  It was here he…