“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”--Martin Luther King
Friday, January 20, 2012
Etta James--1938 to 2012
One of the greatest R&B singers to ever live.
Check that. One of the greatest singers ever, period.
Her Mama was a prostitute, just 14 at Etta's birth. The singer believed Minnesota Fats was her father, but never proved it.
Terry Simons is the founder of Round Bend Press Books and Round Bend Press Detritus. He has worked as a day laborer, dishwasher, factory drone, community organizer, journalist, media consultant and freelance writer. He attended the University of Oregon and Portland State University, where he read journalism, politics, literature and history. He is the author most recently of "Third and a Mile," a fan's notes about the University of Oregon's football travails, 2010--2017.
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