Henry Stone used to know DJ Eddie “Castlerock” Castleberry. He was a disc jockey at WMBM, which had a substation with a big street-facing window in the heart of Overtown. In the 1950’s, artists like Bullmoose Jackson, Wynonie Harris, and…
Henry Stone would be proud that an interview he gave Jake Katel in 2011 for A People’s History of Overtown is a critical hit in NYC. Not only is the book available in paperback and e-book; It has global distribution through…
Not many people make it out from little towns like Charleston, Tennessee and get onto the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots, but keyboard playing singer/songwriter Benny Latimore did just that, and made a lot of great music…
“The Palms was an open arena. People would sing for a week. I saw Little Willie John there and I said, “Oh he is gonna be a star.” He had a song called “Ringatingaling,” and I had never heard of…
“I always had my ears to the street. As these little record stores came up in Miami I used to go and deliver the records sometimes. Most of em’ later started comin’ to me, but in the early years I…
“My first studio was here in Miami back in 1948 on Flagler street, first little funky studio. Actually it was my distributing company where I had a piano and a tape machine in the back. Who’d I record there? A…
The great Benny Latimore was recently featured on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots because he is a soul music impresario and million selling American indie music pioneer artist. He is also now in the Blues Hall…
“Party Down” was just a part of my life when I was young and wild and reckless and partying involved drugs and beautiful women and life was carefree and I thought we had it goin’ on. And we did. I…
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