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Bruce Hornsby Continues on the Trail

Bruce Hornsby performs at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, 10/17/23

BY JORDAN MAINZER

At one point last Tuesday in Milwaukee, in response to one of many moments in the night fans shouted their requests at him, Bruce Hornsby joked, "I love the battle between disparate elements of my audience." Funny enough, I can't think of a statement that better defines the virtuosic pianist and singer-songwriter. That is, what's amazing about Hornsby is not just that he's traversed the worlds of rock, jazz, bluegrass, but that he has diehard fans of each of his endeavors. Go to a Hornsby show--even a solo one like at the Pabst Theater, sans defunct backers The Range or current band The Noisemakers--and you're bound to find both classical music appreciators and Deadheads alike.

In that sense, 1998's Spirit Trail, a storied and purposeful left-turn into modern rock after the jazz-focused Harbor Lights and Hot House, exemplifies Hornsby's multi-pronged approach. On Friday, Hornsby will release a 25th anniversary reissue of the record via Zappo Productions and Thirty Tigers. It contains a remastered version of the record, four "lost" songs from an unfinished record that was meant to be Spirit Trail's follow-up (shelved in favor of the almost piano-less Big Swing Face), and previously unreleased live performances of many of the album's songs. In Milwaukee, venue employees were handing out early CD copies of the reissue, the night a celebration of both Spirit Trail and Hornsby's discography as a whole.

Per usual, audience members requested songs both by shouting them out and via written submission, dropped off on stage prior to the show. As expected, they were all over the place, from Spirit Trail and even Lost Trail tunes to songs he simply refused to play because they were too boring or didn't age well, like "Dreamland" and "The Old Playground". Ever cheeky, at one point, Hornsby asked for requests and responded to the various audible shouts, "I haven't heard what I'm looking for yet." It was clear he wanted to give preference to Spirit Trail. He led off the night with "Preacher in the Ring Pt. I", his jaunty piano playing covering the song's ground in totality. You didn't even miss Sonny Emory's clacking drums from Live Trail, nor the dulcimer from both the studio and live versions of "Shadow Hand". Hornsby's finger exercises were simply a masterclass. He wrote standout track "Sneaking Up on Boo Radley" by learning to play over a left-hand ostinato, appropriating György Ligeti's "Etude 13: The Devil's Staircase", and nailed it live. It was a perfect Spirit Trail song to play without a band. His voice, too, was on point, wailing on the Black Crowes-inspired Lost Trail tune "Living in the Sunshine", doing justice to the studio version that indeed sounds like it could be sandwiched between the Southern rockers' "Remedy" and "Thorn in My Pride".

Yes, Hornsby's reach and influence goes beyond Spirit Trail. "The Show Goes On" has been featured in everything from Ron Howard's Backdraft to The Bear. During the set last Tuesday, he segued "Sidelines"--a duet from 2022's terrific 'Flicted with Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig--into his most famous song of all, "The Way It Is", during which he invited set opener/Bon Iver drummer S. Carey out to harmonize. That over the past decade Hornsby has fostered fruitful collaborations with the likes of Justin Vernon and Blake Mills is more evidence that he's as shaped by his contemporaries as his organic musical interests. So put yourself in his shoes in the mid-1990s, and you can hear his response to the sociopolitical and musical landscape of the past decade in many of the songs on Spirit Trail. He's asking himself tough questions about his own Southern heritage, challenging institutional racism on songs like "See the Same Way". The strummed mandolin of "Preacher in the Ring Pt. II" recalls Steve Earle's "Copperhead Road", "Resting Place" and "Pete & Manny" the radio-friendly heartland rock of Mellencamp and Petty. Yet, Hornsby's also dipping his toes in the worlds of electronica and hip hop, songs like the shuffling "Line in the Dust" written on a synth bed and with a drum machine beat like much of the second disc of Spirit Trail. And of course, the goofily titled "Sunflower Cat (Some Dour Cat) (Down With That)" is built around a sample of Jerry Garcia's riff on "China Cat Sunflower", as Hornsby was trying to explain the appeal of the Grateful Dead to producer Mike Mangini, a hip hop head. Mangini was so taken aback by the former band member's performance that he wrote a groove around the riff.

On fan favorite piano ballad and Spirit Trail highlight "Fortunate Son", Hornsby sings, "I've stared down the devil and had to look away." The song is ostensibly written from the point of view of a wheelchair-bound military veteran, lucky to be alive but maligning society's penchant to ascribe sacrificial glory to a life of physical limitations. I've always heard it, though, as the general antithesis to tough guy nihilism, whether action heroes or strong and silent singer-songwriters. Hornsby is the ultimate reflector, yet not quite ready to face mortality like many of the characters in his songs. After last Tuesday and 25 years of Spirit Trail, it certainly does seem like he's only just getting started.

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

I DON'T WANT A PICKLE...

Opening this weekend:

The Bikeriders--There are many variations within the genre, but overall, biker movies tend to fall into two broad categories. There are those, exemplified by The Wild One (1953), in which the bike gang is seen from the point of view of mainstream society, and those, like The Wild Angels (1966) or Easy Rider (1969), where mainstream society is seen from the point of view of the biker.

This new "wheeler" manages to have it both ways. Adapted by writer-director Jeff Nichols from the 1967 book by photojournalist Danny Lyon, the film traces the growth of a fictitious Chicago area club, The Vandals, based on The Outlaws, with whom Lyon embedded off and on throughout the '60s. It's very much an insider's view, focusing less on riding action than on the tempestuous relationship between Johnny (Tom Hardy), the club's founder, and Benny (Austin Butler), his beautiful, stoic, monosyllabic right-hand man. The Vandals begins as a racing and social club--Johnny, a truck-driving family man, is initially inspired by seeing The Wild One on TV--but criminality and ugly violence gradually creep in. 

Wisely, however, Nichols makes a mainstream viewpoint central to the film as well. The story is narrated to Lyon (Mike Faist) by Kathy (Jodie Comer), a respectable young working-class woman who stumbles into a biker bar one night to meet her girlfriend, and is unimpressed, not to mention understandably scared, by what she sees. She's unimpressed, that is, until she gets a look at the angelic Benny at the pool table, and can't keep an infatuated smile off her face. Despite Benny's anomie and recklessness, before long he and Kathy are a couple, and she's in competition with Johnny for Benny's devotion.

The beguiling Jodie Comer's Kathy is the live wire in The Bikeriders. A Brit of course, Comer lays on a Chicago accent as thick as a deep dish pizza as Kathy tells us, in hilariously bemused terms, about both the follies of bike gang life and her own folly in loving the seemingly emotionless, self-destructive Benny. Her sensible, self-deprecating take is pre-emptive to how many of us in the audience may feel, and keeps The Bikeriders from skidding into cornball melodrama.

None of this is to say that the movie's other elements aren't top-notch. It's full of fine performances: Hardy, sporting a sort of buzzy, mild-mannered Brando voice, has a quietly tragic appeal as Johnny. By the nature of his character, Butler is asked to play Benny very close to the vest, but he brings a star presence to the part. Damon Harriman, Boyd Holbrook, Emory Cohen and others are strong in supporting parts, and Norman Reedus drops in as "Funny Sonny," an unnerving representative of a California club. As the frazzled Zipco, who wanted to serve in the Army, Michael Shannon makes his big monologue a knockout.

The Bikeriders is also one of the best-looking movies of the year, stunningly shot in Grant Wood-esque midwestern tones by Adam Stone. Like the biker pictures from the period it depicts, it seems to be made up of images of real people, objects and places, lovingly captured but rock-solid. In our computer-generated era, this is refreshing; for all its brutality, this movie takes the world in a love embrace.

[littleoddwriter]

Rules, Guidelines, etc.:

[Used to be: ronaldrx]

I'm a hobby writer and mostly write (x Reader) FanFictions and Headcanons. But I am also working on my original story whenever I can, so that I’ll hopefully publish it as an actual book someday. My Ao3.

Here’s a link to my Ko-Fi, in case you want to support me financially. It would mean a lot to me! (Obviously no obligation whatsoever! You never have to pay for anything on my blog, it’s merely an option for donations.)

Also, here are my sideblogs if you’re interested:

Dead Poets Society

Horror

Raúl Esparza

The Simpsons

Only ask for the characters I’ve got listed, please. I’ve written down all of the ones I actually write for, and the list is being updated regularly, as I often find new (actors, whose) characters I write for! (And yes, I always write for every character, so don’t ever worry if you wanna ask for one I haven’t written for in a long time, or ever, it’s fine!) Please always be patient with me. If I haven’t outright declined your request, it’s definitely in the works; even if it has been weeks or months since you’ve sent it in! And only send your requests via ASKs. No DMs or comments, please.

If you have a request, send an Ask to my inbox.

NO sexual NSFW requests, please (more details further down).

Requests = CLOSED (Max. Limit: 10)

Current number of requests: 10

Last updated: October 29, 2023

Masterlists are linked with fandoms/actors/characters below. I WRITE FOR:

ALFRED MOLINA characters:

Doctor Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus

DAVID DASTMALCHIAN characters:

Abner Krill/Polka-Dot Man

Bob Taylor

Denham

James Lewis

Johnson

Kurt Goreshter

Lonny Crane

Murdoc

Philippe/Abra Kadabra

Simon Lynch

Thomas Schiff

ETHAN HAWKE characters:

Arthur Harrow

Ellison Oswalt

Goodnight Robicheaux

James Sandin

EWAN MCGREGOR characters:

Alex Law

Catcher Block

Christopher Robin

Curt Wild

Dan Torrance

John Bishop

Mark Renton

Obi-Wan Kenobi 

Roman Sionis/Black Mask* (Birds of Prey - Masc!Reader only) [Any other version of Roman Sionis/Black Mask can be with a Gender Neutral/Female!Reader.]

HUGH DANCY characters:

Adam Raki

Cal Roberts

Luke Brandon

Executive ADA Nolan Price

Will Graham

KARL URBAN characters:

Billy Butcher

Black Hat

John Kennex

Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Markiplier EGOS:

Darkiplier

Illinois

Wilford Warfstache

Yancy

PAUL DANO characters:

Alex Jones/Barry Milland [Platonic only!]

Dwayne Hoover [Platonic only!]

Edward Nashton/The Riddler

Eli Sunday

Jay (Okja)

Joby Taylor

Klitz

PEDRO PASCAL characters:

Agent Whiskey

Dave York

Dio Morrissey

Eddie

Ezra

Francisco “Catfish” Morales

Marcus Moreno

Marcus Pike

Max Phillips

Maxwell Lord

Oberyn Martell

Ricky Hauk

RAÚL ESPARZA characters:

Bobby

Dr. Frederick Chilton*

Jackson Neill

Jonas Nightingale

Rafael Barba

Characters from 9-1-1 (Lone Star):

Carlos Reyes*

Eddie Diaz

Evan “Buck” Buckley

Howard “Chimney” Han

Josh Russo*

Mateo Chavez

Paul Strickland

Bobby Nash

Tim Rosewater

TK Strand*

Characters from Law and Order(: Special Victims Unit):

Detective/ADA Dominick “Sonny” Carisi, Jr.

Sergeant Mike Dodds

Detective Nick Amaro

Executive ADA Nolan Price

ADA Peter Stone

ADA Rafael Barba

Deputy Chief William Dodds

Little Miss Sunshine:

Dwayne Hoover [Platonic only!]

Frank*

Our Flag Means Death:

Edward Teach/Blackbeard*

Frenchie

Izzy Hands

Stede Bonnet*

Prisoners (2013):

Alex Jones/Barry Milland [Platonic only!]

Bob Taylor

Detective David Loki

Renfield (2023):

Count Dracula

Robert Montague Renfield

Tedward “Teddy” Lobo

SLASHERS/Horror Film Characters:

Asa Emory/The Collector

Ash J. Williams [I will usually default to Ash from the TV show, unless requested otherwise!]

Billy Lenz (1974)

Billy Loomis

Bo Sinclair

Brahms Heelshire

Bubba Sawyer/Leatherface (TCM 1974 and TCM 2)

Charles Lee Ray/Chucky

Chop Top Sawyer

Corey Cunningham

Dewey Riley

Drayton Sawyer

Herbert West*

Jesse Cromeans/Chromeskull

Lawrence Gordon

Lester Sinclair

Luigi Largo

Mark Hoffman  

Nubbins Sawyer

Pavi Largo

Stu Macher  

Vincent Sinclair

William Easton

Star Wars:

Anakin Skywalker

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Qui-Gon Jinn

The Girl Next Door:

Klitz

Eli

Characters from The Simpsons:

Cecil Terwilliger*

Fat Tony

Frankie the Squealer

Grady*

Jack Lassen

Johnny Tightlips

Julio*

Legs

Louie

Moe Szyslak

Ned Flanders

Otto Mann

Seymour Skinner

Sideshow Bob

Sideshow Mel

Snake Jailbird

Timothy Lovejoy

Waylon Smithers*

What We Do in the Shadows:

Anton (Movie)

Deacon

Guillermo de la Cruz*

Laszlo Cravensworth

Nandor the Relentless

Viago

Vladislav

* Please note that an asterisk (*) means that these characters are Male/Masc/GenderNeutral!Reader only (including non-binary, of course). Platonic relationships with Female!Reader are possible, but no romantic ones.

If it’s a character that is open to all Readers, and you do not specify in your request what you want, I’ll usually opt for a Gender Neutral Reader by default.

SHIPS, such as:

BlackBonnet (OFMD)

SteddyHands (OFMD)

Black Pete x Lucius Spriggs (OFMD)

Buck x Josh Russo (9-1-1)

Dracfield (Renfield 2023)

Buddie (9-1-1)

Eli x Klitz (The Girl Next Door)

Nandermo (WWDITS)

Herbert West x Dan Cain (Re-Animator)

McKirk (Star Trek: AOS)

Oluwande x Jim Jimenez (OFMD)

Barisi (Law & Order SVU) 

Renfield x Teddy Lobo (Renfield 2023)

Sickrent (Trainspotting/T2)

Stobotnik (Sonic Movie)

Tarlos (9-1-1: Lone Star)

AnderPerry (Dead Poets Society)

ZsaszMask (Birds of Prey)

Lastly, I would like to add things I will NOT write (about):

Sexual NSFW fics/headcanons (I used to write those as you can see in my Masterlists, but I have my reasons for not writing them anymore. Any hints at sexual topics are fine).

Anything related to death as the main subject (this includes deadly diseases, anything fatal, really, etc.).

Anything that romanticizes Mental Illness (my Vent Fics about my own disorders obviously do not romanticize any of it and I do not stand for that).

(Recreational) Drug Use

Extreme Possessive Behaviour and/or Jealousy

Yandere

If you have something you would like me to write for, but you do not see it listed anywhere, please ask me before requesting it, so we can talk about it. I hope you enjoy yourself on my blog and have a good time!

My Asks and DMs are always open for any questions or simply to talk!

- Jesse

[irenespring]

TV characters and their mentors

I have realized as I watch TV and find myself liking a character I also start considering who their mentor in @lorata's THG District Two system would be, almost as a personality test. I've put too much thought into it to not publish it somewhere. So, here is a very niche character analysis. TV characters and their District Two mentors. If you are a fan of these shows and have no idea what I'm talking about because you don't read Lorata, do it now. I haven't read the Hunger Games since middle school but I return to Lorata's District Two every few months.

The Mentalist:

Patrick Jane: Callista. The way this fits is actually one of the reasons I decided to actually write a post. He considers himself immune to the rules. He hates authority. He is charming and manipulative, with only fleeting indications he has a conscience. A chaos agent. Exactly what Callista looks for. He would absolutely break up the career alliance early because he decides he doesn't want to kill the youngest tributes if he doesn't have to for his survival and he would rather kill his "allies." It gets Callista in hot water with the other alliance mentors but she is just like "he's excellent."

Teresa Lisbon: Brutus. Lisbon is actually a lot like what Petra would probably become in twenty years. Still hot-headed, still stubborn and rules-focused, still wanting respect at all costs... but a little more chill about it. She's a pretty easy choice for Brutus because she gets things done and doesn't resort to the flashy nonsense of certain Calli tributes. Speaking of... Jane and Lisbon kind of work as an inversion of the classic "back-to-back Victors are a wild girl and chill boy" and would probably hate each other at first before slowly becoming closer as time goes on.

SVU (this is a weird case because I've published a THG AU, but lets just say all of them are Two in this case):

Alex Cabot: This is the hardest of all of them for me, but I'm going to say Devon. She fits the dreamer archetype of always wanting to make things better for everyone (even with the weird season 18 twist SVU pulled, Alex is still fighting for what she perceives as justice). That twist however does rule her out for most of Brutus' branch because it's coloring too far outside the lines. She's very charming and witty, but is focused on trying to do right in the world, rather than the more self-focused goals of Callista or Misha (my runner up for this character).

Olivia Benson: Brutus. Pretty much for the same reasons as Lisbon. She is very closely tied with the rules; even when she disagrees with them, she never really thinks about leaving. She is District Two in the AU I published, so I'm to promote myself and say for more insight into how she views the Games as a Career, go read that.

Rafael Barba: Lyme. The essence of a Lyme tribute. Abusive childhood, attachment issues, using flash to cover for insecurities, depression, and ambition. Has a very tough time in early recovery because he has difficulty squaring the horrors of the Games with his motivation for volunteering---a Claudius-esque (though less intense) desire for family and acceptance.

Sonny Carisi: Tough to decide between Devon and Emory but I'm going to go with Emory. He bakes for everyone. He tries to be a good person even the face of horrors. He has no real desire to do violence to people except when under massive amounts of pressure. He didn't even necessarily need to be volunteering, he just did his best, tried to make friends, and figured they'd tell him to stop when he failed.

Bones (this is another interesting case because I have written a THG AU but have not posted because of how much it uses Lorata's characters in the absence of mentor characters in Bones, and in the AU Temperance is from District Nine, but they will both be Two in this case):

Temperance Brennan: Artemisia. She isn't really sorry about anything from Career training, viewing the Program as the only rational choice given the Capitol's governmental system. She often insults other candidates on accident, because she is the best according to the rankings so why do they take offense when she points it out? She avoids serious injury because she really is the best. It cracks Misha up just reading the file. After it becomes clear in recovery that many of her nightmares come from the foster family that she was sent to after he parents and brother abandoned her, Misha tracks them down to make sure they...understand her displeasure.

Seeley Booth: Emory. He is Two in the AU I'm writing so I've thought this through at length. In the show, he is very pre-occupied with being a good person despite having killed people, and Emory is described as the most decent of the Victors. I've thought of an argument where as Lyme is to Claudius, so Emory would be to Booth growing up in District Two. He also has a habit of pushing all his emotions down because he views them as unimportant, something Emory is shown to have a very good way of countering as a mentor. Emory and Misha meet up to talk about how their Victors are clearly infatuated with each other, Emory dismisses it because Misha had a crush on her, but Misha is like "no this is different." They wager a batch of cookies (Misha's would be baked by Devon). Misha accepts her cookies at Seeley and Temperance's wedding.

ER:

Kerry Weaver: Lyme. A lot of the characters I like have similar vibes, so the explanation for this one is kind of similar to Rafael. She has a harsh persona that is used as a cover for someone struggling with abandonment issues and wanting to belong. As a District Two candidate, she likely would be a lot like Petra (quick to anger, sensitive to being disrespected or not taken seriously), but with less regard for duty and more personal investment. She cares about the people of her district, but she wants to win for herself and the family she would be promised. I've almost written an essay on Kerry and how she behaves and her mental health while she thinks she has a shot at fitting in to ER's found family, and how it declines after she realizes that they will never accept her around season 7 and 8. She really, really wants a family, and Lyme is drawn to those types of tributes.

[afrotumble]

The original Earth, Wind & Fire.

The band was founded in Chicago by Maurice White in 1969, having grown out of a previous band known as the Salty Peppers. Other prominent members of EWF have included Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Larry Dunn, Al McKay, Roland Bautista, Sonny Emory, Sheldon Reynolds and Andrew Woolfolk.

[amst248carcerality]

The Forgotten Blues Legend: Buddy Moss

This photograph is titled Jailhouse Rock and was taken in a convict camp in Greene County, Georgia, in May 1941 by Jack Delano.  The guitarist was later identified as Eugene “Buddy” Moss, a blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and harmonica player. Moss is considered to be “the most influential of all the Atlanta blues musicians” by blues historians despite his dying legacy today. 

Buddy Moss was born in Jewell, Georgia sometime around 1914 as one of 12 children in a sharecropping family. When his family moved to August, Georgia, he picked up the harmonica and taught himself to play so that he could perform for people at parties. Later at the age of 16, he followed other Black artists to Atlanta who desired to showcase their talents. Historians say “Decatur Street, right in the heart of Atlanta’s African American community, would have rivaled New Orleans Storyville, Beale Street in Memphis, or 18th & Vine in Kansas City for its profligate night life.” There, Barbecue Bob Hicks and Curley Weaver and was immediately recognized his great proficiency with the harmonica and started recording with him as the Georgia Cotton Pickers, producing songs including “I’m on My Way Down Home” and “She Looks So Good”. By 1933, he was self-taught on the guitar and shortly began playing with Blind WIllie McTell. Moss continued to collaborate with other artists in the Blues scene and produced a prolific amount of tracks. In 1934, his career reached a peak in the south and overshadowed big-name artists of the time like McTell.

Like many other Black blues artists, Moss’s career was hindered by criminal charges. In 1936 at the age 21 Moss was convicted of a crime and was put behind bars.  Some claim he murdered his wife, others that he killed one of his rivals. Even at the time the reasoning for Moss’s arrest was questioned but never given a concrete answer. 

7 years later, he was released on account of good behavior and the requests of future sponsor and recording manager James Baxter (JB) Long. In Long’s custody, he moved to Long’s home in Elon College in North Carolina where he spent 10 years “working in the fields during the weekdays and in Long's store on the weekends.” During this time he met other artists managed by Long including Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, whom he recorded with in New York under Columbia’s label. Moss’s time in prison seemed to only enhance his skills and he felt like he could make a comeback. However, events of World War II lead to the banning of shellac material used for record discs and the entire industry collapsed, halting blues recording productions. Subsequently, only a handful of songs that he recorded in Columbia were ever published.  

Though he continued to perform locally in areas like Richmond, Virginia; Durham, North Carolina; and even Atlanta, Georgia, Moss could no longer make a living off of his musical talents and was forced into working various medial jobs such as tobacco farming, truck driving, and elevator conducting for the next 20 or so years.

His career lived a short revival in 1964 when he came into contact with Josh White at Emory College. There, he was recognized for his prior work and was invited to play for the college and nearby festivals over the next several years. However, the recordings from this time were not published until years later by Biograph Records. 

In 1951 Moss returned to Atlanta, Georgia. Though he would play for parties from time to time, his musical career had reached a halt. He died in Atlanta on October 19th, 1984. 

Despite being one of the most prolific and influential blues musician of all time, Buddy Moss has unfortunately been largely forgotten. Blues historians primarily attribute this to the fact that his career was interrupted by his time in jail and did not maintain enough momentum to remain popular during the music industry’s downswing during World War II. Biograph Records made an effort to publicize Moss’s music in 1970, releasing a majority of his recorded work from 1930-1941.

Moss’s life raises the question that can be asked about many incarcerated Black artists; what would his life and career have been like if he was not arrested? Why was there no justification for his conviction? Why did was a white male sponsor able to get him out of jail? What did this do to Moss’s spirit? 

Prior to finding this image, I have never heard of Buddy Moss. It is a shame that his legacy is not greater, and I hope this information inspires someone to give his music a listen. 

-Miranda

Sources: 

All Music

Kansas Blues Society

Last.fm

[docrotten]

MOON OF THE WOLF (1972) – Episode 224 – Decades of Horror 1970s

“Wild dogs got themselves a taste of human blood! Ain’t nobody gonna be safe out on the island! We get together, or they wipe out the island! You go call the sheriff!” And you know who the sheriff is, right? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they head south for some lycanthropic shenanigans with Moon of the Wolf (1972).

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 224 – Moon of the Wolf (1972)

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After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.

Directed by: Daniel Petrie

Writing Credits: Alvin Sapinsley (teleplay); Les Whitten (novel) (as Leslie H. Whitten)

Makeup Department: Thomas Tuttle (as Tom Tuttle), William Tuttle

Selected Cast:

David Janssen as Sheriff Aaron Whitaker

Barbara Rush as Louise Rodanthe

Bradford Dillman as Andrew Rodanthe

John Beradino as Dr. Druten

Geoffrey Lewis as Lawrence

Royal Dano as Tom Sr.

John Davis Chandler as Tom Jr. (as John Chandler)

Claudia McNeil as Sara

Paul R. DeVille as Hugh

Dan Priest as Sam

Robert Phillips as Deputy

Serena Sande as Nurse

George Sawaya as Attendant

Dick Crockett as Attendant

Sonny Klein as Harry

Emery Hollier as Rev. Biggers (as Emory Hollier)

Teddy Airhart as DeWitt (as Teddy Airhart Jr.)

The Grue-Crew go a-hunting in the land of TV horror in this episode and encounter Moon of the Wolf (1972). This surprisingly good TV movie features a pack (yes, I said it) of good character actors with an equally good crew. Can you uncover the culprit in this Southern Gothic whodunit? Is it David Janssen of The Fugitive fame? Maybe Bradford Dillman (Bug, Piranha)? Could it be Barbara Bush (When Worlds Collide, It Came from Outer Space)? John Berardino, Geoffrey Lewis, and Royal Dano are also lurking about. And, of course, the Grue-Crew often distract themselves with tangentials in this talkabout.

At the time of this writing, Moon of the Wolf (1972) is available to stream from Hoopla and Tubi. It’s available on physical media as a Blu-ray from the Vinegar Syndrome Archive Collection.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Bill, will be José Ramón Larraz’s Vampyres (1974). The Grue-Crew loves them some vampyres with a “y!”

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com. 

Check out this episode!

[jpbjazz]

LÉGENDES DU JAZZ

SONNY CLARK OU LA BRÈVE CARRIÈRE D’UN PIANISTE PROMETTEUR

Né le 21 juillet 1931 à Herminie, en Pennylvanie, Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark était le cadet d’une famille de huit enfants. Les parents de Clark étaient originaires de Stone Mountain, en Georgie.

Situé à environ vingt-cinq miles à l’est de Pittsburgh, la petit village d’Herminie comptait à peine une population de quelques centaines d’habitants. Habité par des travailleurs issus de différentes communautés culturelles, le village comprenait des familles de diverses origines parmi lesquelles on retrouvait des Italiens, des Polonais, des Autrichiens, des Russes ainsi que plusieurs Afro-Américains. Véritable village de compagnie, Herminie possédait tous les services d’une petite ville moderne: école, églises (dont un temple expressément réservé aux Noirs), bar, magasin de la companie... Le village avait même son propre hôtel possédé par des Afro-Américains qui accueillait les plus populaires danses de la région durant les weekends. C’est dans cet hôtel que Clark avait fait ses débuts tout en poursuivant ses études élémentaires. Les spectateurs avaient été tellement séduits par le jeu de Clark que le journal de couleur local avait fait son éloge dans le Pittsburgh Courier. Le frère aîné de Clark, Emory, l’avait même transporté sur ses épaules lorsqu’il avait remporté le concours d’amateurs de l’hôtel.

Le père de Sonny, Emory Clark, travaillait dans une mine de charbon et est mort le 2 août d’une maladie des poumons deux semaines après sa naissance. Surnommée communément ‘’black lung’’, la maladie qui avait emporté le père de Clark était une forme de tuberculose qui était très fréquente chez les travailleurs de l’industrie du charbon.

Clark s’est installé à Pittsburgh avec sa famille à l’âge de douze ans. C’est là qu’il avait été élevé par sa mère et les autres membres de sa famille.

DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE

Clark visitait une de ses tantes en Californie à l’âge de vingt ans lorsqu’il avait décidé de s’étabir sur la Côte ouest en permance. C’est alors que Clark avait commencé à travailler avec le saxophoniste Wardell Gray. Après être allé jouer à San Francisco avec Gray et Oscar Pettiford durant deux mois, Clark avait commencé à accompagner le clarinettiste Buddy DeFranco en 1953. Clark avait fait une tournée aux États-Unis et en Europe avec DeFranco jusqu’en janvier 1956, alors qu’il s’était joint aux Lighthouse All-Stars dirigés par le contrebassiste Howard Rumsey.

Désireux de retourner sur la Côte est, Clarl avait accompagné la chanteuse Dinah Washington en février 1957. Après s’être installé à New York, Clark avait reçu de nombreuses offres pour accompagner d’autres musiciens, principalement en raison de ses aptitudes rythmiques. Clark avait souvent enregistré pour les disques Blue Note comme pianiste-maison et avait collaboré plusieurs musiciens de hard bop comme Kenny Burrell, Donald Byrd, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Philly Joe Jones, Clifford Jordan, Jackie McLean, Hank Mobley, Art Taylor et Wilbur Ware. Il avait également participé à des sessions avec Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Stanley Turrentine et Lee Morgan. 

En décembre 1961 et janvier 1962, Clark avait aussi enregistré avec le guitariste Grant Green un album double intitulé ‘’Grant Green: The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark’’ qui n’avait été publié que plusieurs années après la mort des deux musiciens. De tous les enregistrements auxquels Clark avait participé, il était particulièrement au sommet de son art sur l’album “My Conception”, qu’il avait enregistré en 1959 avec le saxophoniste Hank Mobley.

Clark avait publié un premier album comme leader en 1957 sous le titre de ‘’Dial "S" for Sonny’’, qui avait été suivi la même année de ‘’Sonny's Crib’’ et ‘’Sonny Clark Trio.’’ Clark avait ensuite enchaîné avec ‘’Cool Struttin''’ (avec Jackie McLean) en 1958. En 1960, Clark avait enregistré un second album en trio simplement intitulé ‘’Sonny Clark Trio’’ avec George Duvivier et Max Roach. Clark avait aussi enregistré un autre album intitulé ‘’Blues in the Night’’, mais celui-ci avait été publié plusieurs années après sa mort en 1979.

UNE MORT TRAGIQUE

Sonny Clark est mort à New York le 13 janvier 1963 à l’âge de seulement trente et un ans. Même si le décès de Clark avait été officiellement attribué à une crise cardiaque, il était plus probablement mort à la suite d’une overdose à l’héroïne et de son importante consommation d’alcool. Clark avait d’ailleurs été incarcéré à quelques reprises pour trafic de drogues au cours de sa carrière, notamment sur Ryker’s Island, près de New York.

Au cours des deux dernières soirées prédédant sa mort, Clark avait joué du piano au rez-de-chaussée de l’Hôtel Alvin situé à l’intersection nord-ouest de la 52e rue et Broadway.

On sait très peu de choses au sujet de la mort de Clark à l’exception du fait que la baronne Pannonica de Koenigswarter, une mécène qui avait été la protectrice de nombreux musiciens de jazz dont Charlie Parker et Thelonious Monk, avait appelé la soeur aînée du pianiste pour l’informer de son décès. Nica, comme la baronne était surnommée, avait ajouté qu’elle serait prête à payer pour que le corps de Clark soit transporté jusqu’à sa ville d’origine. La baronne avait également proposé de payer tout ce qu’il fallait pour que Clark ait droit à des funérailles décentes.

Proche ami de Clark, le pianiste Bill Evans lui avait rendu hommage dans le cadre de la pièce "NYC's No Lark" qui avait été incluse sur l’album ‘’Conversations with Myself’’ enregistré en 1963. Les musiciens John Zorn, Wayne Horvitz, Ray Drummond et Bobby Previte avaient également enregistré un album complet consacré aux compositions de Clark. Intitulé ‘’Voodoo’’, l’album avait été publié en 1985 sous le nom de Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet. Zorn a aussi enregistré plusieurs compositions de Clark avec un trio composé de Bill Frisell et George E. Lewis dans le cadre des albums ‘’News for Lulu’’ (1988) et ‘’More News for Lulu’’ (1992).

Caractérisé par son style percussif, Clark démontrait énormément d’énergie dans ses solos.

©-2024, tous droits réservés, Les Productions de l’Imaginaire historique

SOURCES:

‘’Sonny Clark.’’ Wikipedia, 2023.

‘’Sonny Clark.’’ All About Jazz, 2023.

STEPHENSON, Sam. ‘’Sonny Clark.’’ The New Yorker Movie Club, 13 janvier 2011.

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Time for your Rock Report

Iconic British duo Tears For Fears have announced a North American 2023 summer tour, dubbed The Tipping Point Tour Part II, with special guest Cold War Kids. The tour is in support of their latest album, The Turning Point, which dropped last year and was the band's first full-length record in 17 years. The 22-city tour kicks off on June 23rd at Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The trek will feature stops across North America in New York, Toronto, Houston, closest to home in Seattle, and more before wrapping up in Los Angeles, California, at the Hollywood Bowl on August 2nd.

Eric Clapton has announced that he will be playing five North American Tour Dates with special guest Jimmie Vaughan in September. The North American Tour Dates with Vaughan will be Clapton's only shows on the continent for the year.The legendary guitarist's band for these shows will include Doyle Bramhall II, Paul Carrack, Nathan East, Sonny Emory, and Chris Stainton. Sharon White and Katie Kissoon will provide backing vocals. The tour will begin in Pittsburgh on September 8. After visiting Toronto, St. Louis and Minneapolis, the tour will wrap up in Denver on September 16.

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Founded in Chicago by Maurice White back in 1969, Earth Wind & Fire, which has prominently featured the likes of Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Larry Dunn, Al McKay, Roland Bautista, Robert Brookins, Sonny Emory, Fred Ravel, Ronnie Laws, Sheldon Reynolds, Andrew Woodfolk and Fred White, among others is one of the most commercially successful acts of their day: Earth, Wind & Fire has…

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LAWRENCE - Step into the Night 16:04 PAUL DOZIER - Dancing by the Sea 16:00 DARREN RAHN - Our Love 15:57 BENNETT B - Groove Time 15:53 RICK BRAUN - The Color of Love 15:50 JS FLOYD - Kukumo 15:46 PEET PROJECT - Veggie Love 15:40 BRIAN LENAIR - This Christmas 15:35 THE SMOOTH JAZZ ALLEY - Midnight Groove 15:31 JULIAN VAUGHN - Initiate 15:26 GERALD ALBRIGHT - Silent Night 15:22 MARCIN NOWAKOWSKI - After Hours 15:19 ERIC DARIUS - Retro Forward 15:15 DEAN JAMES - To Hold You Again 15:12 CHRISTMAS CAROLS - Stille Nacht 15:08 DONALD HAYES - Anytime Anyplace 15:04 PAUL BROWN - Makes Me Feel So Good 15:00 WILL SUMNER - A Last Dance 14:57 DIDIER LABOSSIERE - Back to the Beginning 14:52 RHYTHM LOGIC - You Know I Will 14:47 DARREN RAHN - Give 'n' Take 14:43 KIMBERLY BREWER - Everyday Feels Like Christmas 14:38 NILS - Pacific Coast Highway 14:35 SOLEX - Flying High (feat. Jonathan Dubose, Jr.) 14:31 LEE RITENOUR - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 14:27 ERIC DARIUS, NORMAN BROWN - Just For The Moment 14:23 DAVE KOZ - Honey-Dipped 14:18 WAYMAN TISDALE - Shape of Your Heart (feat. Jeff Lorber) 14:14 MARCUS ANDERSON - What Child Is This 14:09 DREAMING IN COLOUR - The Dream Merchant 14:05 LOWELL HOPPER - Affection 14:00 CANDY DULFER - For the Love of You 13:54 KEITH MASON - Arisen 13:49 GARY METZ - Dreamer 13:46 SMOOTH SOUL HOLIDAY - Carol of the Bells 13:42 WALTER BEASLEY - Come On Over 13:37 CHRIS STANDRING - Mumbo Jumbo 13:34 NATE WHITE - Migration 13:30 RONNY SMITH - The Holidays Are Here 13:25 RANDY SCOTT - Serenity 13:21 VINCENT INGALA - Read Between The Lines 13:16 R.L. WALKER - Memories Kept 13:13 CAROL NETHEN - Peace 13:08 ACOUSTIC ALCHEMY - She Speaks American English 13:04 PAUL TAYLOR - Goodnight 13:00 OLI SILK - In the Thick of It (feat. Elan Trotman) 12:56 JULIAN VAUGHN - Ride Along 12:52 DARREN RAHN - What Cha' Gonna Do For Me 12:48 PHIL DENNY - Stand Together 12:43 STEVE OLIVER - Silent Night 12:39 EUGE GROOVE - Religify 12:34 GABRIEL MARK HASSELBACH - Chill@Will (Raincoast Mix) 12:31 MARION MEADOWS - A Winter Lullaby 12:25 BLAIR BRYANT - Caramel Dream 12:21 DANNY LERMAN - Summer in a Hummer 12:17 YULARA - Flyin' High 12:12 SHAKATAK - Auld Lang Syne 12:09 NORMAN BROWN - Easy Livin' 12:05 PETER WHITE - Coast Road Drive 12:00 NILS - A Walk in the Park 11:56 TIM BOWMAN - Boss 11:52 JAZMIN GHENT - Kickin It Up 11:49 JOYCE COOLING - Toast & Jam 11:45 RONNY SMITH - Chillin After Eight 11:41 SHIN GIWON CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTION - I'll Be Home For Christmas 11:37 THREESTYLE - Smoothies (feat. Magdalena Chovancova & Robert Fertl) 11:33 DEE LUCAS - All In (feat. 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Burt Bacharach) 08:16 NAJEE - Isla Hermosa 08:13 DANA FIELDS - Feels Like Christmas 08:09 DAVID BENOIT - The Bones 08:05 THREESTYLE - Ready to Go 08:00 DOMINIC CAMARDELLA - Headwinds 07:56 3RD FORCE - We Should Be Together 07:51 BRIAN SIMPSON, STEVE OLIVER - The Road Never Ends 07:46 AVERY SUNSHINE - Sunshine for Christmas 07:41 TIM BOWMAN - Flyin Away 07:37 ROBERTO VAZQUEZ - Going West 07:33 STEVE OLIVER - Desert Traveler 07:28 YOLANDA RABUN - O Holy Night 07:24 GERALD ALBRIGHT - The Gospel 07:20 DARREN RAHN - Wave of the Future 07:16 DAVID PETROSYAN - Dancing with My Soul 07:12 LYNNE FIDDMONT - Spirit of Christmas 07:07 KIM SCOTT - Sizzle 07:04 BK JACKSON - Silver Lining 07:00 JOE MCBRIDE, THE TEXAS RHYTHM CLUB - Kickin' It 06:55 PETER WHITE - Wake Up Everybody 06:50 JESSY J - Manhattan (feat. Gregg Karukas) 06:46 EUGE GROOVE - Forever And A Day 06:41 DR. SAXLOVE - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear 06:37 D.A. 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Blake Aaron) 04:30 STEVE OLIVER - White Christmas 04:26 TOM BRAXTON - What A Friend 04:21 WAKANA - SilK 04:16 AL DEGREGORIS - Times and Travels 04:11 PETER WHITE - Silent Night 04:07 GARY PALMER - Windsurfer 04:03 NILS - Malibu 04:00 MARK HARRIS II - Pocket Change (feat. Bernard Harris) 04:00 RHODA GRAHAM - Finally 03:56 SPECIAL EFX - Lavish 03:50 JAZZ FUNK SOUL - When The Time Comes 03:46 HANK BILAL - Sunny Days 03:41 ERIC DARIUS - All I Want For Christmas Is You 03:37 WALTER BEASLEY - Just Hold Me 03:34 MARCUS ANDERSON - Espresso Shot 03:30 SHARMOND SMITH - Hark The Herald Angels Sing 03:26 DEMETRIUS NABORS - Sugar Love 03:22 JIM ADKINS - Turning Point 03:18 RICHARD ELLIOT - Inside Out 03:14 GERALD ALBRIGHT - This Christmas 03:10 ROBERT HARRIS - Your Memory Lives in Me 03:05 DAVE KOZ - Only Tomorrow Knows 03:00 DANCING FANTASY - Take Five 02:56 JOEL DEL ROSARIO - Delicious Vinyl 02:53 TAKE B - Flame 02:49 SAM BASSMAN JENKINS - It Makes Me Want You 02:45 PATRICK YANDALL - Just My Luck 02:41 TIM BOWMAN - Travelin' Road 02:37 SHIN GIWON CHRISTMAS CAROL COLLECTION - Feliz Navidad 02:33 CAROL ALBERT - Sol Ipanema 02:28 KEN NAVARRO - In My Wildest Dreams 02:24 TONY CRADDOCK JR. - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 02:21 VANN BURCHFIELD - Change Is A Comin' 02:17 OLI SILK - All We Need 02:14 VINCENT INGALA - T.L.C. (Tender Lovin' Care) 02:11 SYLVIA BENNETT - The Christmas Song 02:06 SLIM GAMBILL - Up (feat. Charlton Singleton) 02:03 DAMIEN ESCOBAR - Phoenix 01:57 NICHOLAS COLE - 5th Avenue 01:53 GINO ROSARIA - Ride Along 01:48 DWIGHT SIRLS - Dimensions 01:44 DAVID GARFIELD - White Christmas 01:40 JACOB WEBB - Brazilian Moments 01:35 PETER WHITE - Autumn Day 01:32 JEFF LORBER FUSION - Back Room 01:30 NICK DUKAS - Rockin Around the Christmas Tree 01:26 NILS - Windsurfer 01:21 NORMAN BROWN - Not Like You Do 01:17 DARRON COOKIE - Calling on You 01:12 MICHAEL LINGTON - Winter Wonderland, Let It Snow 01:08 RAGAN WHITESIDE - Funktuation 01:04 BRIAN SIMPSON - Sky Watcher 01:00 MARCUS ANDERSON - Passion Blend 00:56 QUINTIN GERARD W. - Times Like These 00:52 JEANETTE HARRIS - The Ride (feat. Darrell Crooks) 00:47 DR. SAXLOVE - O Little Town Of Bethlehem 00:43 FOURPLAY - Love TKO (feat. Ruben Studdard) 00:39 RICHARD ELLIOT - Boom Town 00:35 RANDY SCOTT - T.G.I.F. 00:32 DAVE KOZ - Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (feat. Kenny G) 00:27 JONATHAN FRITZEN - Hammers of Love 00:23 MARCIN NOWAKOWSKI - Tonight Is the Night 00:19 BRAD ALEXANDER - Straight Up (feat. Donald Hayes) 00:15 U-NAM - This Christmas 00:10 TIM BOWMAN - Columbus,Ga 00:04 BRYAN LUBECK - Nothing Can Come Between Us 00:00 H ALLAN - Rise

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From Germany: Jeff Lorber Fusion performs Chinese Medicinal Herbs, with Jeff Lorber (keys), Eric Marienthal (sax), Nate Phillips (bass) and Sonny Emory (drums) live at Proberaum Zülpich.

From Germany: Jeff Lorber Fusion performs Chinese Medicinal Herbs, with Jeff Lorber (keys), Eric Marienthal (sax), Nate Phillips (bass) and Sonny Emory (drums) live at Proberaum Zülpich.

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Robin de Jesús (he/him) as Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors

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Credits: The Boys in the Band (Emory), Wicked (Boq), in The Heights (Sonny)

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Vincent Sinclair (House of Wax)

Will Graham (Hannibal Tv Series)

Dead By Daylight Killers

Anna / Huntress

Carmina Mora / Artist

Danny Johnson / Ghostface

Elliot Spencer / Cenobite (Hellraiser)

Evan MacMilan / Trapper

Herman Carter / Doctor

Ji-Woon Hak / Trickster

Julie & Frank / The Legion

Max Thompson Jr. / Hillbilly

Micheal Myers / Shape (Different personality than Halloween Myers)

Sally Smithson / Nurse

Philip Ojomo / Wraith

Pyramid Head / Executioner (Silent Hill)

Rin Yamaoka / Spirit

Dead By Daylight Survivors

Cheryl Mason (Silent Hill)

Claudette Morel

David King

Dwight Fairfield

Élodie Rakoto

Feng Min

Haddie Kaur

Jake Park

Jane Romero

Kate Denson

Laurie Strode (Halloween)

Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil)

Meg Thomas

Mikaela Reid

Nancy Wheeler (Stranger Things)

Quentin Smith (Nightmare on Elm Street)

Steve Harrington (Stranger Things)

Yui Kimura

Yun-Jin Lee

Texas Chainsaw Massacre Game

Bubba “Leatherface”

Drayton “Cook” ＊

Nubbins “Hitchhiker”

Johnny

Sissy

Nancy ＊

Leland

Julie

Connie

Ana

Sonny

Danny

Virginia ＊

*-Excluded from matchups and nsfw works

＊-Excluded from matchups unless asked for

I’m still adding on to my list of characters! (You can ask about characters not on my list!)

Don’t be afraid to ask!

You know what…

About me under the cut!!!

Name: Itch or Liv is fine!

Age: 20+

Pronouns: Any :)

Likes: Slashers, horror movies, animals, sweets, fall, 70’s fashion, westerns, collecting bones + vinyls, and foggy days!

Dislikes: Hot and humid weather, rude people.

Tiny Bio: I’m a simple ranch gurl 🤠🤠 When I’m not wrangling livestock or horses, I’m drawing, listening to my records, ooooor playing videogames such as TCM, DBD, or RDR2!

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The Winstons - Amen, Brother (1969) Traditional | Arranged by The Winstons from: "Color Him Father" / "Amen, Brother"

Instrumental | Funk | Gospel

JukehostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Richard Lewis Spencer: Tenor Saxophone Ray Maritano: Alto Saxophone Quincy Mattison: Lead Guitar Phil Tolotta: Organ Sonny Peckrol: Bass G. C. Coleman: Drums

Arranged and Conducted by Emory Gordy, Jr. Produced by Don Carroll

Recorded: @ LeFevre Sound Studios in Atlanta, Georgia USA during the spring of 1969

Metromedia Records Negram Records (Netherlands)

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"At 1:26 of ‘Amen, Brother’ by The Wintsons, true magic happens. A drum break emerges as the horns and bass cut away. Punchy, rhythmic, and powerful, this drum break would go on to be known as the ‘Amen Break’ and would be regarded as one of the most influential samples in modern music." - Electronic Music Collective Sample Science: “Amen, Brother” by The Winstons

Six Seconds that Shaped 1,500 Songs - BBC

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When Nature Was Golden

Let’s open with a few passages of deathless prose from the classics.

EMORY’S SOFT-SHELLED TURTLE (18 in.; to 35 lb.) is the only Southwest member of an edible group with long necks and short tempers. Handle with care.

BELTED KINGFISHER Where there are fish there are Kingfishers, beating the air in irregular flight, diving into water with a splash and emerging with fish in their beaks.

THE EASTERN MOLE or common mole makes the mounds that dot your lawn. You are unlikely to see any moles, for they stay underground unless molested.

You saw them in the basement of your third-grade best friend, or in your school library. If you were lucky, you had one or two at home—your older sister read them first, years ago; maybe they’d even belonged to one of your parents. Paperback books just a bit smaller than pulp fiction novels, though equally thick, their illustrated pages of a glossier, higher quality. The typeface was Futura, that design marvel of yore, also seen in the old Hall of Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History. Insects, Seashores, Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians—which did you have? The Golden Guides gave us our natural world in all its glory, and managed to do it in a singular style, dry yet affectionate, concisely informative and never, ever dumbed-down. They were written for children, but each, too, is a cracking read for any adult eager to learn. Or to remember.

Naturalist Herbert S. Zim, who founded this series of guides and wrote many of them, was born in New York in 1909. Raised there and in Southern California, he finished his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D at Columbia University. He was then a science teacher for twenty-five years—at Ethical Culture schools in New York City, and later at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. One wonders where on earth he found the time to crank out so many books. Each was a loving collaboration with other educators, not solely Zim’s effort. But the synthesis of these people, the meticulous research required to bring together all the info, was his responsibility, from 1949 until the early 1970s. Zim, in 1969, was also the editor of an 18-volume set of encyclopedias named Our Wonderful World.

Of the 84 Golden Guides, Zim wrote or co-wrote 24. Is it confirmation bias that makes me believe those are the best of the bunch? The simple style is charming, with phrases like Rock Ground Squirrels, found in the Southwest, are our largest terrestrial squirrels. What grace: with a hint of pride to be from the United States, he said that the squirrels are ours. (I also appreciate that he uses the word “unique” correctly, without qualifiers. The Barn Owl is unique, not “totally” or “somewhat” unique.) The occasional anachronism amuses. Once in awhile Zim tells us which kind of turtle or ground squirrel makes a good pet, if captured.

You have been seeing birds as far back as you can remember and you will continue seeing them wherever you may be. It’s a real pleasure to see them. You can see more birds and more kinds of birds by learning how to look. This book will help you. It is not written for the expert, but for people who want to see birds just for the joy of it.

First become familiar with the mammals pictured and described. Look through the Key to Mammals on the next pages so that you can recognize the major mammal groups. Try to see the mammal well enough to decide, for example, whether it is a rodent or a shrew.

Familiarity with fishes gained by thumbing through pages at odd moments may enable you to make rough identifications at sight. Use this book as an “arm-chair” guide, but also take it into the field with you, for that is where it can be used best. On fishing trips take it along in a plastic bag.

Originally named the Golden Nature Guides, the series name was shortened to “Golden Guides” when they began branching out into other topics—for example, Guns, Sports Cars, and Casino Games. But these adult subjects did not make it into most family rooms, and the more popular guides about flora and fauna, insects, weather, stars, and the like are the ones most frequently found today. The illustrations by James Gordon Irving and others are remarkably detailed, the beauty of pure accuracy from a time when nature photography was rare.

A particularly enchanting feature of the Guides is the family tree, usually a two-page spread of swooping, color-gradated branches, each limb ending in a small picture of an animal in its biological order, labeled something like “Cutlass Fishes” or “Scorpion-Flies.” No less an artist than Matt Groening would eventually parody this format for his Life In Hell comic, describing the evolution of record-store clerks from sullen teens.

Herbert Zim, in his long career as an educator, was the one who brought lab instruction into science courses at the elementary-school level. Anyone who looked through a microscope before they reached ninth grade might have him to thank. And one attribute of Golden Guides is the way they expect one to get involved, not just in the field, but with “amateur activities” like building a birdhouse or preserving animal tracks in plaster. Through such deep engagement, the reader is encouraged not just to appreciate nature, but to discover new things about it, making new contributions to science.

He demanded no less of himself. Going through what biographical information there is on Zim, which is all very straightforward, one notices the list of scientific associations he belonged to, numbering more than twenty. They included the Audubon Society, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Everglades Natural History Association, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Truly, this was a vigorous and busy man.

Like so many cultural products of their time, the Golden Guides can look antithetical to today’s progressive values. Just ask the Yuman Indian woman who sits weaving cotton, bare-breasted, in one of the pictures in a guide to the American Southwest. In little vignettes we see depicted dozens of trappers, fishermen, tourists, birdwatchers—all white, mostly male. Under the entry for “Other Suckers,” Zim claims “some are so easily caught that every boy knows them.” If the Guides were written just for boys, this is a great shame, though their ubiquity meant that many girls of all different backgrounds would find them. The scientific language is devoid of prejudice, by its nature, and is there for any young person dedicated enough to study it. It prizes the natural world above all. One passage recently took me by surprise for its passion, on a page about the fishing industry: If you are interested in fishes, conservation—the wise use of all our natural resources—is your problem too.

Maybe it’s our current predicament that makes one particularly fond of the outside world, and of non-humans. Back in March, I started watching a live online feed from The Aquarium of the Pacific each night, comforted by the variety of fish, sharks, and rays that swam peacefully by. Curious about a small fish with long, showy gold fins, I consulted Fishes to identify it, and Irving didn’t disappoint. Meanwhile, Herbert Zim informed me that the species, named Lookdown, belong to the mackerel-like family of “jacks” and are fine eating.

In 1934, Zim married the Russian-born Sonia (Sonnie) Bleeker, who had studied anthropology at Columbia. The couple had two sons. Bleeker, too, worked in the book world—as an editor at Simon and Schuster, then as a full-time children’s book author. They eventually moved to Florida. Just like the descriptions in the guides, these biographical facts fall well short of being dull. They force me to imagine how energetic, how full life must have been in the Zim household as the kids grew up; and how many subtropical species kept Herbert company in his later years. After Bleeker’s death, he married Grace K. Showe in 1978. He died at Plantation Key in 1994, of complications from Alzheimer’s.

LIVE OAK has become a symbol of the South. The low, spreading tree, often covered with Spanish moss, marks old plantations and roadside plantings. The elliptical, blunt-tipped, leathery leaves are evergreen—that is, they remain green and on the tree throughout the year. The acorns are small but edible; wood is used for furniture. Two other southeastern Oaks (Laurel and Willow) have leaves of somewhat similar shape, but they are thinner and more pointed than Live Oak. Several western Oaks are evergreen. Botanists apply the unqualified name Live Oak only to this species. Height 40 to 60 ft. Beech family

In a Manhattan backyard in the middle of June, a couple of mourning doves fly between the trees. I’m aware that the gentle woop-woop-woop sound they make is not their voices but their wingbeats. The dogwood’s cream-yellow blooms have begun to fade, as is proper at this time. Above me a juvenile blue jay, still fluffy, shrieks out his typical noisy cry. I’m intrigued to see a red speck moving among the hairs on my arm—it’s a clover mite, an insect I haven’t noticed in decades. As recently as 1982, I was a four-year-old marveling at the rolling movement of clover mites on a windowsill—smaller than pin heads, bright candy-apple red. Somewhere along the line they stopped showing up, at least with the frequency they did back then. Now, seeing even one evinces a swell of emotion. (Incidentally, the same is true of another brightly-colored beauty, the red eft, which used to be so numerous in summer that we had to tiptoe on New York State gravel roads to avoid stepping on them.)

We learn more from Zim’s texts than he bargained for. His Golden Guides speak of a midcentury United States where all these animals and plants were still commonly seen. Just based upon my memories from the past 20 or 30 years, there seem to be fewer animals everywhere; in the 1950s, then, was the Earth just teeming with them, in every corner of every suburban lawn? Having learned that the biomass of insects, in particular, has started to fall fast, I yearn for the spectacle of clover mites and hastily do a search for them. Yes, the internet reassures me: we in New York City still have lots of the red bugs, enough to warrant a FAQ page from a pest-control company. They’re harmless to humans, pets, houses, and furniture. They munch grass and reproduce parthenogenically, which means every individual can lay viable eggs, without mating.

Of course, the sites telling me this haven’t worded their data quite as eloquently as Herbert Zim would have. Still, I thank him for the spark of curiosity that got me there at all. He taught me not just how to identify a clover mite, but how to care about her.

by Amanda Nazario