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Wednesday, 25 December 2013

A Rainy Night in Memphis


           One rainy evening in September 1948 a mole-colored 1937 Plymouth churns down Main Street in Memphis, heading north toward the cheap rent. Inside are a dark-haired woman with dark circles under her eyes, her shifty-faced handsome blond husband, and in the back seat looking out the window, his eyes hungry like his mothers, their son .................

Rhythm Oil
Stanley Booth
1991

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Raeburn Flerlage
Jackie Wilson at the Trianon, Chicago
1964

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