Month: October 2015

Voices in the past: Barney Delabano interviewing Otis and Velma Dozier

October 31, 2015

What a week it’s been……..earlier this week I posted my father’s interview with Vivian Louise Aunspaugh and today its an interview with Otis and Velma Dozier who both passed away in 1987 and 88 respectively.  My mother when she found the wire recording of my father’s interview with Miss Aunspaugh also came across an interview my father … More Voices in the past: Barney Delabano interviewing Otis and Velma Dozier

Voices from the past: Barney Delabano interviewing Vivian Louise Aunspaugh

October 29, 2015

My father passed away back in 1997 and there are times I long to hear his voice again.  He was a  wonderful story teller, which is not something I appreciated when he was alive.  Early on when it became clear to him that I was going to follow in his shoes in the arts, he … More Voices from the past: Barney Delabano interviewing Vivian Louise Aunspaugh

Skip James, Mississippi Delta Blues and the shaping of my musical taste

October 28, 2015

Not sure when I got my first record, but I remember who it was by.  After seeing the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show sing, “I want to hold your hand”, I got the first Beatles album and I played it over and over again on my parent’s phonograph until the record’s grooves were worn … More Skip James, Mississippi Delta Blues and the shaping of my musical taste

On getting older

October 17, 2015

Another day older and deeper in debt.  No really, tell me there is more. Today is my birthday.  I was born 58 years ago back in 1957, 13 days after the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 into a low elliptical orbit around the earth. The space race of my youth, seemed to be the perfect metaphor for … More On getting older