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Charlie Musselwhite

Mississippi Son (2022) … glorious …

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I've seen some people say that Annabeth and Grover should have taken Percy to the river that was right there because it's different than just a still shallow fountain. So I'd like to explain to y'all why they did not do that. The river next to the arch is the Mississippi. You CANNOT swim in the Mississippi River (at least not on the St. Louis side). Because of all the bacteria and pollution, you most likely get sick if you were to swim in that. And there is no "beach" area so they'd have to drop him off the side of it and just hope that he gets healed so he has the strength to pull himself back up. They also didn't know he could breathe underwater at this point. So that's why they didn't consider dropping him in the river, it would have been a very bad idea.

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Twelve-year-old son of a cotton sharecropper near Cleveland, Mississippi, 1937 - Dorothea Lange (1895 – 1965), American

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Robert Johnson spent his childhood growing up in Memphis and attending the Carnes Avenue Colored School where he received lessons in arithmetic, reading, language, music, geography, and physical exercise. It was in Memphis that he acquired his love for, and knowledge of, the blues and popular music. His education and urban context placed him apart from most of his contemporary blues musicians.

A school friend, Willie Coffee, who was interviewed and filmed in later life, recalled that as a youth, Robert was already noted for playing the harmonica and jaw harp. Later in life, Son House remembered Johnson as a "little boy" who was a competent harmonica player but an embarrassingly bad guitarist.

Johnson perfected the guitar style of House and learned other styles from Isaiah "Ike" Zimmerman. Zimmerman was rumored to have learned supernaturally to play guitar by visiting graveyards at midnight. When Johnson next appeared in Robinsonville, Mississippi, he seemed to have miraculously acquired a guitar technique.

*The Crossroads* is where Robert Johnson supposedly sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for mastery of the blues, according to the legend. It is the intersection of U.S. Routes 61 and 49, at Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States.

Born Robert Leroy Johnson on May 8, 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi and died on August 16, 1938 in Greenwood, Mississippi at the age of 27.

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Son of Sharecropper. Mississippi Country, Arkansas. 1935

Photo: Arthur Rothstein- Library of Congress

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It seems the mother of a Mississippi boy arrested for peeing in public is putting her foot down in the case against him. The boy was recently handed a probation sentence but after viewing the terms and conditions, but his mother said she isn’t signing off on anything.

Latonya Eason’s son Quantavious was apprehended by a Senatobia police officer in August after the boy was seen urinating near his mother’s car in a parking lot, police said. Eason said she was handling business inside an attorney’s office and left her son in the car during the meeting. But after not being able to locate a restroom, she said he resorted to urinating outside.

Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Harlow sentenced the 10-year-old to three months of probation and ordered him to complete a two-page book report on the late Kobe Bryant, per NBC’s report. Why? No idea.

Additionally, Quantavious has an 8 p.m. curfew as if a 10-year-old has places to be after that time. He was also prohibited from the use of weapons and ordered to submit drug tests at the probation officer’s discretion, according to family attorney Carlos Moore.

“It’s just a regular probation. I thought it was something informed for a juvenile. But it’s the same terms an adult criminal would have,” Moore said via NBC.

Read more from NBC News:

Latonya Eason, the mother of Quantavious Eason, had initially planned on signing the agreement to avoid the risk of prosecutors upgrading her son’s charge, as they threatened, but she changed her mind after reading the full agreement Tuesday, attorney Carlos Moore said. The prosecution threatened to upgrade the charge of “child in need of supervision” to a more serious charge of disorderly conduct if the Quantavious’ family took the case to trial, Moore said. After advising Quantavious’ mother not to sign the probation agreement, Moore filed a motion requesting the Tate County Youth Court either dismiss the case or set a trial. A hearing on that motion has been scheduled for Jan. 16.

Senatobia Police Chief Richard Chandler said the officer involved in the boy’s arrest violated their training on how to deal with children. Eason previously noted that she was denied the ability to drive her son to the station because the cops insisted on putting him in the patrol car.

However, per NBC, Chandler said those officer in question are “no longer employed” and suggested other officers would be disciplined. Eason ialso announced plans to file a lawsuit alleging the incident was racially motivated.

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On March 21st, we venerated Ancestor Eddie James "Son" House Jr. on his 121st birthday 🎉

A juggernaught at the dawn of the Blue's Era, Son House was and remains a blueprint for many as the Father of Folk Blue's music & culture.

A preacher man in the pulpit by day & a slide guitar playing bluesman by night, unlike those before him, Son House lived his life torn dead center at the crossroad of the Southern Baptist Church & the jukejoint stage. He became one of many engineers to elevate secular music at the intersection of Delta Blue's & Gospel & controversy. Yet none other captured the emotional depth of the 30s & 40s more than Son House. International fame rightfully found him in the midst of the Blue's Revival movement of the '60s, which drew him from the drawl of retirement & a guitar back in his lap. From humbled beginnings a hired guitarist performing under Jazz living legends of the time to spurring a 50-year-long recorded legacy, Son House became a profound influence on the likes of Robert Johnson & Muddy Waters, among others of the next generation bluesmen.

"White Folks hear the Blue's come out, but don't know how it got there.” - Son House

We pour libations & give Brother Son House his 💐 for his legendary influence, emotional intelligence, & creative ingenuity that forever shifted the trajectory of Black Music Culture.

Offering suggestions: play his music (Mississippi Delta Blue's), a Baptist Bible, & libations of water

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1:56 AM EDT April 6, 2024:

Son House - "Preachin' The Blues, Pt. I & II" From the Compilation album   Blues Masters Vol. 8 - Mississippi Delta Blues (1993)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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Mistrial declared in FedEx driver shooting Mistrial declared in case of 2 White men charged with attempted shooting of Black FedEx driver 00:21

A FedEx delivery driver who said two White men shot at and chased him in Mississippi in 2022 has now been fired from his job, he and his attorney said Monday.

"I honestly feel disrespected," the former driver, D'Monterrio Gibson, 25, told The Associated Press shortly after he received an email from FedEx about his termination.

Meredith Miller, manager of global network communications for FedEx, confirmed Monday that "Mr. Gibson is no longer employed at FedEx," but did not respond to other questions from AP.

Carlos Moore, an attorney who has represented Gibson in a civil lawsuit, provided AP with a copy of an email Gibson received from FedEx on Monday. It said Gibson's employment was terminated July 26, and the company attempted to deliver a letter and documents to him about the termination July 31.

FedEx fired Gibson because he did not accept a part-time, non-courier job that the company offered in mid-July, Moore said, adding that he did not know whether the company gave Gibson a deadline to accept.

"They can't tell me when I should be ready to come back," Gibson said.

Worker's comp, therapy, trouble sleeping

Gibson said he has been on worker's compensation leave, at about one-third of his pay, since shortly after he reported the attack to police in Brookhaven, Mississippi, on the night it allegedly happened, Jan. 24, 2022.

Gibson was not injured in the shooting or chase, but said Monday that he has been in therapy to deal with anxiety because of it. He said he still has trouble sleeping.

Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Case, are charged with attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy and shooting into the vehicle driven by Gibson. Prosecutors said they intend to schedule a new trial for the two men, who remain out on bond. A court official said the judge's docket is full through December.

Moore said Gibson had done nothing wrong before two White men tried to stop him, with one of the men holding a gun.

White father and son charged for allegedly chasing and shooting at Black FedEx driver

"He was simply Black while working," Moore said during a news conference in 2022. Gibson had said he was told by his superiors to run the same route the day after the chase, CBS affiliate WJTV reported.

"The following day, we had to go file a police report, and as soon as I was done filing a police report, they put me back on the same route. I did that for like a day or two until I started having real bad anxiety attacks, and I just couldn't do it anymore. I asked them for some time off, which I do have, but it's unpaid," said Gibson at the time.

In a statement earlier this year, FedEx said: "FedEx takes situations of this nature very seriously, and we are shocked by this criminal act against our team member. ... The safety of our team members is our top priority, and we remain focused on his wellbeing. We will continue to support Mr. Gibson as we cooperate with investigating authorities."

Gibson reported that the encounter happened as he was making FedEx deliveries in a van with the Hertz logo on three sides. After he dropped off a package at a home on a dead-end public road, Gregory Case, then 58, used a pickup truck to try to block the van from leaving, and his son Brandon Case, 35 at the time, came outside with a gun, District Attorney Dee Bates told jurors last week.

As Gibson drove the van around the pickup truck, shots were fired, with three rounds hitting the delivery van and some of the packages inside, Bates said.

Gregory Case saw a rental van with a Florida license plate outside his mother-in-law's unoccupied home after dark, defense attorney Terrell Stubbs told jurors. The elder Case was just going to ask the van driver what was going on, but the driver did not stop, Stubbs said.

Grand Jury: Brookhaven Police "complacent" 

On August 10, a federal judge dismissed Gibson's federal lawsuit seeking $5 million from FedEx, writing that the lawsuit failed to prove the company discriminated against him because of his race. That litigation also named the city of Brookhaven, the police chief and the Cases. Moore said he plans to file a new civil suit in state court, seeking $10 million.

A grand jury issued a report last month saying that Brookhaven Police Department officers "poorly investigate their cases." The grand jury, made up of local residents, considered more than 60 criminal cases, and wrote that the department is "complacent," "does not complete investigations in a timely manner," shows a "lack of professionalism" and "has a habit of witness blaming."

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Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival | Full Documentary

Fat Possum & No Sudden Movements present 'Memphis '69'. This concert documentary, shot over 3 days in June of 1969, celebrates an American art form that unites us all. Feat. Bukka White, Furry Lewis, Fred McDowell & so much more.

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Son House was born into a family of musicians. He was interested in the church and became a gospel singer who initially shunned instruments and rejected blues music. He even became a preacher at the age of 15.

At the age of 25 he acquired a passion for blues from James McCoy and Willie Wilson, whose slide guitar work inspired him to become a blues performer himself. Son had his own bottleneck guitar style and a vocal approach deeply influenced by his experience in the church.

Edward James "Son" House Jr. died October 19, 1988 at the age of 86.

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Ruthie Foster at Levitt Pavilion, Dayton, Ohio, Aug. 8, 2024

When Ruthie Foster put down her guitar - “Pearl,” she calls it - and stepped to the mic to sing Son House’s “Grinnin’ in Your Face” a cappella, Dayton’s Levitt Pavilion was transformed into a church. And the rented chairs in the lawn became pews.

She began the song singing wordlessly like the women in her childhood house of worship and ended in harmony with her bassist and drummer, eliciting a raucous ovation as Levitt organizers brought her a hard-earned drink. With that, Foster toasted the audience that flocked to her free Aug. 8 performance in Southwest Ohio.

But gospel wasn’t all Foster and her trio brought to the corner of Fifth and Main. Her hollow-bodied electric guitar is named in honor of Pearl Bailey’s jazz, Minnie Pearl’s country and Janis Joplin’s blues and the singer and her trio touched on all that and more during a genre-erasing, 80-minute performance rooted in rhythm. The band doesn’t solo. Those spots are saved for Foster’s immensely powerful, passion-filled voice.

The set consisted mostly of covers. But they sounded like Ruthie Foster songs - including a slow-and-grimy reading of “If I had a Hammer,” which took Pete Seeger’s song of joyful optimism and turned it into one of steely determination as Foster threw her head back and wailed - never losing the key and bringing the audience into her orbit.

Foster is the embodiment of American music and a rarified talent. She scoured the sonic landscape, reaping such songs as Mississippi John Hurt’s “Richmond Woman Blues,” Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s “Up above My Head I Hear Music in the Air,” Patty Griffin’s “When it Don’t Come Easy” and Lucinda Williams’ “Fruits of My Labor” and serving them up in fresh arrangements.

And when the trio turned Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” into a dirge of soulful balladry, the gutsiness of the attempt made up for the fact it didn’t work terribly well.

Grade card: Ruthie Foster at Levitt Pavilion - 8/8/24 - A-

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