Soul singer Jackie Ross is so much more than a one-hit wonder
The 1964 Chess Records smash “Selfish One” just happened to be the best-selling single from her decades of great songs.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
As much as people love the famous songs of so-called one-hit wonders, they don t get much respect. Legit soul and R&B hits such as Jean Knight s Mr. Big Stuff or the Capitols Cool Jerk often get lumped in with novelty numbers (Carl Douglas s Kung Fu Fighting, Vicki Lawrence s version of The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia ) on cheesy nostalgia-bait compilations. It s especially sad when an artist tagged a one-hit wonder actually had a substantial career making quality music, with a long list of forgotten minor successes in additi
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St. Louis blues musicians pick their favorite films about the blues
Chuck Berry plays with Keith Richards on Oct. 16, 1986 at the Fox Theater in St. Louis at a concert called Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll. (J.B. Forbes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS)
For many, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” could shoot straight to the top of the (short) list of favorite films about the blues. We asked some St. Louis blues artists about their favorites.
Little Dylan, blues performer
“Bessie,” 2015 HBO biopic starring Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith – “I thought they were really consistent with ‘Bessie.’ I really appreciated that movie in every aspect. The acting was really good, and the character development Queen Latifah went through, it showed.”
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