tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018189.post112836192218319225..comments2024-03-24T10:17:28.625-07:00Comments on thus spake drake: August Wilson RIPShawn Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05703481653646144923noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018189.post-1128532270871962242005-10-05T10:11:00.000-07:002005-10-05T10:11:00.000-07:00The Village Voice has a great eulogy for him today...<A HREF="http://villagevoice.com/theater/0540,webfeingold,68479,11.html" REL="nofollow">The Village Voice has a great eulogy for him today.</A>Shawn Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703481653646144923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018189.post-1128482548523450532005-10-04T20:22:00.000-07:002005-10-04T20:22:00.000-07:00Yeah, you know if it weren't for the fact that my ...Yeah, you know if it weren't for the fact that my wife worked for the Seattle Repertory Theater for a few years, I might've missed out on him altogether, as theater had always been under my radar. <BR/><BR/>He's debuted a lot of his work there in the past fifteen years, which is great for a theater-starved (and traditionally black culture-starved) city like Seattle. I'm just so thankful to have had a chance to get to know some of his work, up close.Shawn Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703481653646144923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018189.post-1128432689340891602005-10-04T06:31:00.000-07:002005-10-04T06:31:00.000-07:00Thanks for this. With the post and playlist you ce...Thanks for this. With the post and playlist you certainly provided me with some valuable perspective on Mister Wilson's life and death I didn't see anywhere else.J Shiftyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10398530368715075012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9018189.post-1128369511359090672005-10-03T12:58:00.000-07:002005-10-03T12:58:00.000-07:00August Wilson's Plays and Music * "Nobody In To...August Wilson's Plays and Music<BR/><BR/> * "Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine" - Bessie Smith<BR/> * "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" - Ma Rainey<BR/> * "Doctor Jazz" - Jelly Roll Morton<BR/> * "Hear Me Talking To You" - Ma Rainey<BR/> * "See See Rider" - Lightnin' Hopkins<BR/> * "Joe Turner Blues" - W.C. Handy Preservation Band<BR/> * "Joe Turner Blues (Louis Ford, Vcl)" - Muddy Waters<BR/> * "Walking Blues" - Robert Johnson<BR/> * "Samson and Delilah" - Reverend Gary Davis<BR/> * "What's Going On" - Marvin Gaye<BR/> * "Red Sails In The Sunset" - Big Joe Turner<BR/> * "The Wrong Nigga To F@ck Wit" - Ice Cube<BR/> * "Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean" - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy<BR/> * "Old Black Joe" - Douglas JimersonShawn Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05703481653646144923noreply@blogger.com