#stoney edwards

[allmusic]

AllMusic Staff Pick: Stoney Edwards Mississippi, You're on My Mind

Stoney Edwards was one of the finest hard country singers of the 1970s, and scored three Top 40 Country hits in that decade. Sadly, he ultimately fell victim to country radio's reluctance to play any Black artists not named Charley Pride. His three biggest hits all appear on this album compiled from his first three Capitol Records LPs, and it's a superb introduction to an underappreciated honky tonk hero.

- Mark Deming

[ringneckedpheasant]

before he was a country singer Stoney Edwards was a bootlegger with his uncles. king shit.

[polniaczek]

Stoney Edwards - Blackbird (Hold Your Head Up High)

[bowlovercat]

I’ve been watching the new zombies trailer over and over again. This will be a long post about it, if you haven’t seen it then spoiler warning!

I feel like them showing Weavers room in-depth like this is building towards the shared hatred that him and Edward Richtofen have for one another now. His name is etched in the wall much more deeply than anything else, and very noticeably too. Also:

Smaller things I noticed were what I think is a name “Harry”(?) etched out in the wall. There’s a rumor Weaver accidentally killed Richtofen’s son and wife. It is at least confirmed that Weaver did accidentally kill a kid in the BOCW zombies intel where he claimed he didn’t know the kid was there and was very distraught as Maxis comforted him.

The date might just be the day they were taken into the terminus facility. I just thought it stood out. Along with the saying above the coatrack thing. “I will have no dreams in breathless…(slumber?)” I can’t make out the last word quite well but slumber is my best guess.

Also just a cool note is that it appears that Weaver is actually a decent artist. Just a fun little piece of info I like to see.

I also wonder what exactly the two weapons are pointed towards? Perhaps a metaphor for Richtofen or perhaps he’s just gone insane. If anyone understands Russian and can translate the text I’d be very appreciative ❤️

Grey, Carver, and Raptor one all look amazing and surprisingly built for their situation. Then again this is cod lol. I know in Carvers report he would hold little training sessions to keep moral up so it seemed to work. Also Raptor One’s smile looks like that Mewing meme and I can’t get it out of my head. His name was allegedly revealed to be Stoney Maddox

I’m really excited for Maya and what she will bring to the story. I also want to know who her brother is and how he potentially ended up on Richtofen’s shit list. Also she’s kinda cute like 👀

Also just now found out there’s a 10 image post limit LAME. I’ll make another post, a part 2 if you will. Cause I have one more theory.

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

[mariocki]

Man in a Suitcase: All That Glitters (1.10, ITC, 1967)

"But I understand that. Cos I help people too."

"Out of kindness."

"For money."

"How much money?"

"Well, how much help do you need?"

"My friend told me that you were difficult. And rude."

"Well, you have very well informed friends."

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"HOSING OF CONVICTS SUBJECT OF INQUIRY," Toronto Globe. December 5, 1913. Page 9. --- PRISON REFORM COMMISSION RESUMES SITTINGS AT KINGSTON. --- (Special Despatch to The Globe.) Kingston, Dec. 4. - The Prison Reform Commission to-day listened largely to complaints of convicts about hosing treatment given them as punishment. One convict declared that his clothes had been almost washed off by hosing, and that he had been rendered unconscious on four occasions. He showed the Commissioners a scar on his arm which he claimed was the result of this punishment, but the prison surgeon, Dr. D. Phelan, testified that this was an old scar. The convicts hosed were of the desperate kind and inmates of the isolation ward.

Another convict who was hosed, it developed, was a very bad character who had once stabbed a fellow-convict and again had thrown a hammer at a guard. He had to be placed in the isolation ward, the Deputy Warden said.

To-morrow the confession of convict Rose that he swore falsely against Guard Frederick Ingledew is to be heard, and on Saturday morning charges against H. Begg, assistant hospital overseer, are to be taken up.

As a result of a wordy battle between G. M. MacDonnell, K.C:, Chairman, and Dr. J. W. Edwards, M.P., who has been active in the investigation, the latter is not now allowed to ask questions of witnesses, but has to do so through counsel for the Department of Justice, H. A. Stewart, К.С.

The committee resumed the inquiry into the conduct of Deputy Warden O'Leary. It was intimated that Jones and Bonnar, two of the western desperadoes, would be called to give evidence, probably in regard to the much-talked about "hosing" treatment.

Reuben Bryant, guard for eighteen years, went back to an incident seventeen years ago, when he had to continue work with a sprained wrist, instead of being given another task to show that the deputy had discriminated against him. The evidence was ruled out on the ground that, in his condition, he should not have been on duty.

The Chairman objected to calling John Mills, who served as a guard seventeen years ago, and a lively passage followed with Dr. Edwards over the way the investigation was being conducted.

"You can't bluff me," said Edwards hotly, and the Chairman said that if he persisted in interfering he would have to retire. The doctor thereupon challenged the Chairman to put him out, saying he would cause a whole lot more trouble before he was through.

Guard Mills said he was discharged, but he did not know what for.

[womantoday]

Ruby Falls {January 16, 1946 - June 15, 1986}

Ruby Falls has been the most successful black woman country performer to date, with her mellifluous voice taking her to the Billboard country singles chart nine times between 1974 and 1979. Her biggest hits were “You’ve Got To Mend This Heartache,” which peaked at number 40 in 1977 and “I’m Getting’ Into Your Love,” which peaked at number 56 in 1979. Falls was also nominated as country music’s Most Promising Female Vocalist in 1975 by country industry trade media. She recorded on the 50 States Records label and also found success in her stage shows. In the late 1970’s, she was touring through the Atlas Artists Bureau with Grand Ole Opry star Justin Tubb. She also performed with such country greats as Faron Young, Jeanne Pruett, Del Reeves, Narvel Felts, and Dave & Sugar. She additionally got significant Nashville area and national promotion on such television programs as the Ralph Emery Show, Nashville Today, Good Ol’ Nashville Music and Music Hall America.

When Falls died in Nashville at the young age of 40 of a brain hemorrhage in June 1986, she was touted by the media along with Linda Martell for becoming one of the first black women to find significant success in country music. In a brief retrospective nine years after her death, Nashville’s major daily newspaper, The Tennessean, proclaimed, “Along with other successful black artists of the period, such as Charley Pride and Stoney Edwards, she helped illuminate the black community’s long history of artistic contributions to the country.” Tubb told the media after her death that “She was the one of the best friends I ever had. Ruby Falls made everybody feel good that she was around.”

Born as Bertha Frances Bearden (married: Dorsey) in January 1946, on a farm near Jackson, Tennessee, Falls spent her early years primarily picking cotton, tomatoes and strawberries. She dreaded her days in the field at the hand of a strict grandmother, who was her guardian. For refuge, she listened to the radio a lot at night, particularly to country music heard frequently on station KLAC out of Gallatin, Tennessee. The sounds she heard prompted her to dream of a singing career. She began that career singing in churches, in schools on talent shows and at local social events as a teenager.

After high school she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, took voice, dance and charm lessons, and turned professional in early 1960’s by becoming lead singer with the group Harvey Scales and the Seven Sounds. The group travelled all over the country and performed country, pop, and rock in such places as Las Vegas and New York supper clubs. Then she joined a rock and jazz band whose club dates were typically closer to home. Then she decided to concentrate on the music she enjoyed most and moved to Nashville. There she was discovered by Johnny Howard, who signed her to 50 States in 1974.

She took the name Ruby Falls from one of Tennessee’s natural treasures- a cavern that is 1,100 feet below the surface of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, is the deepest cavern in the United States and boasts the highest underground waterfall open to the public. “It’s like a dream come true,” she says in a publicity brief, about her success as Ruby Falls. “I get to thinking about everything good that’s happened to me since I moved to Nashville and sometimes I get so excited I feel I sing in my sleep every night.” Of her move to Nashville to concentrate on both singing and writing country, she adds, “It made sense. There’s a lot of country girl left in me and I guess it shows in my music like it does in my talking…I love music and I love people, so my main goal is making music that people will love. I want to do my very best all the time so people will love me.”

After pounding the Nashville pavement and landing a recording contract, Falls found that having records out in the public and getting touring dates was not enough to bring her what she wanted. She wanted more. She wanted to catapult her career to the next level. A grand opportunity to just that came to her in 1976 when she won a slot to perform before thousands of country radio on-air personalities and executives from around the country. Gathered in Nashville for their annual industry convention known as the Country Radio Seminar, these are the people who somehow had to become attracted to Falls and be part of an overall effort to promote her and her music if she were to become a true star. But the opportunity didn’t open the doors she had expected, and by the time of her death she was disgruntled at not having done better in her career and had taken a traditional job at a computer firm.

Falls did not blame people’s reaction to her race for her not reaching the heights she had dreamed of, and she had earlier vowed to keep trying to reach her career goals in every way she could think of. “Everybody’s been real nice to me,” she said in a September 1977 Essence magazine article. “I’ve never had negative incidents on the road. If I did, I wouldn’t pay them any mind…I want to be a star. No one ever told me that it was gonna be easy. I’m gonna hang on in there for as long as it takes to make it.”

articles: Hillbilly Music Jet Billboard The Black Women Of Country Music That Nashville Sound

Youtube: Sweet Country Music {1975} He Loves Me All To Pieces {1975} Let's Spend Summer In The Country {1975} Show Me Where {1976} Somewhere There’s A Rainbow Over Texas {1976} Beware Of The Woman (Before She Gets To Your Man) {1976} You’ve Got To Mend This Heartache {1977} Do The Buck Dance {1977} Three Nights A Week {1978} If That’s Not Loving You (You Can’t Say I Didn’t Try) {1978} I’m Gettin’ Into Your Love {1979}

Stella Parton Remembers Singer Ruby Falls {2022}

Country Music Time #767: interview {1982}

[ginwhitlock]

summary: Edward Cullen wasn't even born yet when he got a brother. Jasper Whitlock didn't realize he was ever was one. (or: the story of two boys who died too young and too full of rot. not slash.) AO3

Jasper Whitlock has never had a brother. He had sisters—two of them. One older and one younger. Twin matches of flame, hair the color of corn meal and straw. The last burnt up and up like a log cabin in the west, like those boys he killed when he got turned, the first shrouded herself in blue and white like a real northern bride, cut her hair to her ears and prayed with the pentecost. By the time he was supposed to turn twenty-five, her birthing bed had swallowed her whole and she was carried away too, burnt up like the rest of them. No one remembers their names now, whose sisters they once were.

Jasper Whitlock never wanted a brother.

Edward Masen succumbs to the bite when Jasper is seventy-eight years old. The older man has spent, by the time the good doctor sinks his knuckles into that rich boy’s ribs, almost six decades in a never ending, blackened cloud of blood and shit and venom-spit, rebirth like an old joke running behind his teeth, wins and losses carved out of his shoulder blades by his dear mistress. There is more blood between his toes than there was at the Alamo, may he never forget.

He has never seen Chicago. He has never heard of influenza. He’s only felt this life, teeth in his eye like a dog about to be shot behind the shed. He does not remember a time before this.

When Edward Masen is reborn as Edward Cullen, a girl about the size of an August cornstalk rips off the stoney flesh of Jasper’s ear and throws it into the desert, when she burns it smells like robitussin and asphalt (smells he will not be able to name until his next life).

Jasper doesn’t remember being anyone’s brother.

When Alice—just Alice—walks into a Pennsylvania diner, she grins, all gums. It feels like a loaded double barrel has placed itself into his hip and pulls its trigger. It should hurt. It does. He doesn’t tell anyone.

Edward always wanted a sibling.

When Jasper Whitlock and Edward Cullen meet for the first time, the ginger boy learns what it means to speak to a corpse. Jasper Whitlock stands like a shepard with no flock, spine like stilted steel, a hand wrapped around a rifle that hasn’t been on his back in a century. It’s like he’s not there—he’ll say to his newfound little sister, it’s like he wasn’t there at all.

Jasper Whitlock meets a dead boy that day. Jasper swears he’s never seen an immortal look so sick before—like, like a grave marker turned living. Like a blank cement plaque with a frown. He asks if he needs to put him out of his misery and Carlisle laughs.

Two boys stand facing one another in a rich man’s dining room, a room that has not once seen actual dining except for that time they all played make believe for a hospital banquet. Two women grin at them from their sides, yellow irises like traffic lights, blinking. There is only pale skin between them, arched brow bones and drained arteries. For the first time in a long time, neither step away.

In half a century, perhaps a little overfilled, one of them will make a decision that will set both of their deaths into the stone below their feet, and the other will watch it happen. That’s what brothers do, right? Watch each other lose. Over and over again.

Edward Cullen carries his eldest brother out of the cold winter snow of his wife’s, his father’s, his daughter’s battlefield on his back, slung over his shoulder like he weighs nothing. His skull is lost to the fire and his neck seeps venom, a wound that will never get to close. There are no words said, nothing that would matter to a man that has been dead much longer than he was ever alive. Edward Cullen is, at this moment and in every moment before, a little boy. Jasper Whitlock was a little boy once. They are now both without. How did they ever make it this far without each other? This is all you ever wanted, he whispers. He laughs. He is alone, except for the heavy weight of his brother leaching into his skin. You saw this coming, didn’t you? You told me. He is still alone.

Jasper Whitlock always needed a brother.

[lboogie1906]

James Edward Allen (born June 18, 1985) is a country music singer and songwriter. He was signed to Broken Bow Records imprint Stoney Creek, for which he released the two singles “Best Shot” and “Make Me Want To” and the album Mercury Lane. He won the Country Music Association Award for New Artist of the Year, the second Black artist to do so.

He was born in Milton, Delaware. He moved to Nashville. He auditioned for the tenth season of American Idol but was cut before the live voting rounds.

His first official single, “Best Shot”, was released in early 2018. It was the second most-added song to country music radio playlists. The song has made the Hot Country Songs, Country Airplay, and Billboard Hot 100 charts and was made into a music video. His debut album, Mercury Lane, was issued in October 2018. “Best Shot” was a #1 hit on the Billboard Country Airplay, making him the first Black artist to send his debut single to the top of that chart. The album’s second single, “Make Me Want To” was released to country radio and became a #1 hit on the Billboard Country Airplay chart.

He recorded a cover of Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper’s “Shallow” with Abby Anderson. The recording was made into a video as well. He released “This Is Us”, a duet with Noah Cyrus. It was included on his new EP, Bettie James. The project’s second single was “Freedom Was a Highway,” a duet with Brad Paisley. It became his third #1 hit.

He became the first Black solo performer to win New Male Artist of the Year at the 2021 ACM Awards. He was announced as one of the celebrities competing on season 30 of Dancing with the Stars. He and his partner Emma Slater placed 7th.

He won New Artist of the Year at the CMA Awards. He performed at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. He was a guest mentor on American Idol(season 20). He was featured on Noah Schnacky’s “Don’t You Wanna Know”. He released the lead-off single, “Down Home,” to his third studio album Tulip Drive. He was a coach and judge on My Kind of Country.

He married Alexis Gale (2021). They have three children, he had a son from a previous relationship. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

Cowboy G-Men - Ozark Gold - Syndicated - January 13, 1952

Western

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Buckley Angell

Produced by Henry B. Donovan

Directed by Leslie H. Martinson

Stars:

Russell Hayden as Pat Gallagher

Jackie Coogan as Stoney Crockett

El Brendel as Peterson (Glasgow in credits)

Phil Arnold as Zerbo

Richard Travis as Dort

Mary Ann Edwards as Jenny Peterson (Glasgow in credits)

Lane Bradfordas Baxter

Lee Roberts as Mescal

[ringneckedpheasant]

I especially appreciate Joan Baez lesbian long black veil cover because I had really liked Lefty Frizzell’s version until I found out about him meeting fellow country singer Stoney Edwards because Edwards was Black and Indigenous and. well.

“After “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” came out and made at least enough noise for everyone in Nashville who actually gave a shit about country music to pay attention, Stoney happened to find himself in the same bar as Lefty Frizzell one night. Lefty was only two years away from successfully drinking himself to death and, on this night, when someone played “Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul” on the jukebox, Lefty was so drunk he couldn’t hold back the tears from hearing the song and so drunk he didn’t have a clue who he was talking to when Stoney Edwards walked up to introduce himself as the singer. After spending the past decade or so feeling like the industry and country music fans forgot about him and moved on, Lefty was blown away by the tribute to him. But then he expressed some kind of frustration over the record being by a Black artist. Only, Lefty used the n-word. Stoney just shook his hand and walked away.

- from this cocaine & rhinestones episode about Dallas Frazier

in response to this incident Edwards wrote a song that is really good but that a lot of stations refused to play because he referred to himself and his father as “a couple of country [n-word]s”

[deeply-unserious-fellow]

I DID IT I DESIGNED CHARACTERS!!!!!! SPECIFICALLY JEKYLL AND HYDE CHARACRERS!!!!!!!! EVERYBODY LOOK I DID IT!!!!!!!!

And now, for my thought process~

Dr Henry Jekyll: Man's is built like a fuckin TANK bro. Idk why everybody draws him as a twink he's CLEARLY meant to be MASSIVE(/pos). Anyways, as you've probably noticed, I leaned HEAVILY into the color coding for this one. I chose red for Jekyll mostly- uh, mostly just because I already associated Hyde with green and I wanted them to be complimentary colors? But also he has red character vibes in the musical to me. Probably because the poster is very red. I gave him tiny glasses cuz I thought it looked cool lol. I uh, I don't really know why he's the only character with visible pockets? I guess I just thought it looked best on his design or something. He was originally gonna have a ponytail but I thought it made him look to much like he was from the American Revolution so I changed it to the shorter, poofier style shown in the picture. Also his vest was originally brown but I decided I wanted more red in his design so I changed it.

Gabriel John Utterson: SQUARE. SQUARE SHAPED MAN. He's repeatedly described as like the most boring man alive so I decided to reflect that in his design by making him really rigid and almost statue-like. Hence all the grays. I wanted to add a dash of color though, so I gave him a blue tie(also the strappy thingy around his hat is blue but that isn't visible here). He's also super pale to go with the cold/stoney vibe of the rest of his color scheme.

Dr Hastie Lanyon: God this one took me FOREVER to figure out omfg. I didn't have a very good idea of what he looked like while reading the novel and until I started actually searching for them I didn't see very many fan designs for him. All I knew is I wanted him to wear yellow bcuz primary color trios RULE. But theeeeeen I started looking up other peoples designs, and picked out a couple of contants I liked (ex; short, dark skin, gray streaks), then boom! I knew what I wanted to do! Anyways yeah, once I had an idea I just went for it and uh, I dont have much else to say :)

Edit: WAIT SHIT I FORGOT LANYON HAS LIKE A MASSIVE WHITE STREAK IN HIS HAIR OMFG-

Edit 2 Electric Boogaloo: Okay so my Lanyon design was driving me SO crazy I felt the need to update the ref, so now he's a little taller and has the afformentioned white streak aornfoemdk

Edward Hyde: Fun fact, Hyde was originally going to be 4'6, but I just kept making him shorter and shorter until he lost the 6 inches entirely lol. The only description we got of Hyde in the book was that he was small, hairy and had an "unexpressed deformity", so I guess I just took that to mean he is a Creature and ran with it lmao. I made him SUPER pointy, just the sharpest man. Mostly to contrast with the round shapes of Jekyll, but also he's kinda just that kinda dude, y'know? I also made sure his silhouette was super uneven, in contrast to all of the classy characters have(mostly) symmetrical silhouettes. OBVIOUSLY he needed to have a cloak and top hat, because really, what Hyde design is complete without a cloak and top hat? There are 3 reasons I decided to make his color green: 1; the potion Jekyll uses to become Hyde is green. 2; Green, at least in my mind, means sick, and Hyde is supposed to look sickly and unpleasant. And 3; The Ghost of Mr Hyde from Scooby Doo is green and he was the first version of the character I ever saw, so I've kinda just associated him with it ever since. Speaking of the Ghost of Mr Hyde, the mud on his shoes is actually an homage to that episode! I tried to get the color as close to the weird, off redish the mud on Dr Jekyll's shoes was in that episode. Why? Because Scooby Doo my beloved <3. Also since this section is already so fucking long, the reason he has that silver tooth is because the original got knocked out in a fight. In this version, Hyde's injuries do NOT carry over to Jekyll, and vice versa, so he needs to take out the tooth before he transforms back and put it back in when he's Hyde again. Idk why I put the most thought into Hyde's design but whatever-

So yeah! Those are my designs and the thoughts behind them! Hope yall like em :)

[imgoingtoputscorpionsinyourmouth]

ppl being like country is like all confederate flag waving bigotry shit make me soooo fucking annoyed.... i am going to pry your eyelids open and squirt salt water into them if you dont listen to some stoney edwards...

[scoutravenson]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

Ready To Run by Adam Lambert

Rag doll by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

A Kingdom I Call Home Stoney Edwards

Lions by Skillet

I’ll Cover You (reprise) from RENT

[sunlovingbutterfly-blog]

I will never forgive stephanie meyer for not giving Bella some kind of talent. she can’t sing? she doesn’t make art? she doesn’t play an instrument?

could she not see how music and art would naturally be so beautifully engraved in their bond? like.. could you actually imagine Bella, sat at the piano, entrancing Edward with beautiful waves of notes full of so much emotion and love, while he sits on the couch, cheek resting on his hand, staring at her in a total trance of awe? perhaps, his family is present and gleaming with pure joy seeing how enthralled Edward is with this woman… also too enjoying Bella sing. her voice flows like the ocean, deep and high notes flowing.. thunder and rain are making their presence known outside the big, long glass windows… perhaps Edward takes a seat next to her by the piano. he just can’t help but also play and sing alongside her because the emotion is just flowing out of him. he hasn’t felt in decades. she lets him in to perform alongside her, both sharing such a complex array of piano notes and vocal harmonies… rain continues to downpour, dripping down the windows. the redwoods are swaying in the storm… his stoney hand wraps around her warm soft one… he takes a moment to inhale her scent and kiss her neck, singing softly in her ear.

so much missed opportunity. Im grateful for the story we were given, but I can’t help but wish there was more art in it.