Sublime

But I would urge you to remember that this was also the trendiest and most popular commercial music of its day.

“Rude Boy”

insistent earthiness.

Thelonious Monk was a particular favorite. Monk’s Music was my favorite of his albums.

ALAN LOMAX, Notes to Blues in the Mississippi Night, Rykodisc 90155 [1990] Little Sally Walker, sitting in a flying saucer Arkestra chant at Slug’s, c. 1967

Buddy Bolden,

“irrational exuberance”—

W. C. Handy blues songs, performed by the young Louis Armstrong, with Barney Bigard on clarinet and Trummy Young on trombone.

The music producer Adrian Younge was hanging out on Twitter one day and tweeted, “Who is better: The Dramatics or The Delfonics?” As his followers erupted in a debate over the two soul groups, one follower mentioned that the lead singer of The Delfonics, William Hart, was a friend of his dad’s and that Hart just happened