We're Gonna Hold On

George Jones and Tammy Wynette holdin' on, a Billboard Hot Country Number One hit.

The "Possum" looks quite juiced.

The clip is from a 1973 Marty Robbins and Loretta Lynn (Right On!) hosted Midnight Special.  

Marty's pants should have won an Emmy,   

Marbles in a deep groove

O'Donel Levy explores the groove.  

From the 1974, Everything I Do Gonna Be Funky album.

Every Brother Ain't a Brother

Ebony Godfather Joe Thomas, flautist extraordinaire!

2015 - Ain't I'm Clean?

Breakdown Children!

Love one another!

James Brown's message of Christmas peace.

Let's get together and love one another!

Can you feel it?

Don Nix wrote it, Freddie King busts it wide open.

Go down y'all!

Live at the Sugarbowl, September 22, 1972.

Backlash Blues

Nina Simone performing the Langston Hughes penned, Backlash Blues at Montreux, 1976.

Simone first released the song on Nina Sings the Blues  in 1967, a year that also saw Hughes' passing at age 65, and the publication of his final book of prose, The Panther and the Lash. The collection includes Justice, a nearly fifty year old poem that could have been written this afternoon.

Justice

That justice is a blind goddess

Is a thing to which we black are wise:

Her bandage hides two festering sores

That once perhaps were eyes.

 - Langston Hughes