tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70483334809165107732024-03-19T02:30:26.498-07:00Portrait of a Record DealerEric Feldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16360744417670610461noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048333480916510773.post-27830089479643831362011-04-17T14:02:00.000-07:002011-07-18T10:55:56.867-07:00In the Beginning<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the beginning was a record.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was sometime in the mid 90's at a WFMU record fair that I purchased my first record from Ozy. I was literally lured to his table by the music playing on his turntable: Jerry Washington's "Right Here Where You Belong" recorded for the Excello label in 1973. It was an impulsive purchase, but I felt I had to have it.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our paths crossed again, several months later at a record show in New Jersey.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "You're the guy who bought that Jerry Washington record." I was invited into the inner sanctum filled with boxes of records labeled "rare", where I spent the rest of the day as well as the rest of the money in my wallet. It was the beginning of a beautiful relationship. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flash forward. Many years and dollars later I proposed to accompany Ozy on one of his record buying trips and document it. There were many polite refusals, but in the fall of 2005 he invited me to tag along. Hurricane Katrina had just devastated New Orleans and perhaps Ozy sensed much of what he loved about the South was also in jeopardy of survival.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The agreement was that if he did not want something filmed, it would not be filmed and that I would not compete with him for records.</span>Eric Feldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16360744417670610461noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048333480916510773.post-25025003552094012212011-04-17T11:03:00.003-07:002011-08-23T13:23:53.536-07:00Ozy's HomeOctober 2005.<br />
Ozy told me to get there at 2PM. The note on the door reads, "Come in and make yourself at home."<br />
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After waiting for 3 hours, Ozy descends the stairs and informs me that he just woke up. Around 9PM we finally head south on Rte. 95 but only after a dinner of Philly cheese steaks at his favorite restaurant.Eric Feldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16360744417670610461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048333480916510773.post-74683497952942574652011-04-17T11:03:00.001-07:002011-08-23T14:08:58.537-07:00Richmond, VA.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicjjpTWVCbSUrdD85l5x6Wo6GfTvXBv5DTnMqsVDdYKn-IgffCC4N_uS5ILOcqL4ux0d-9qyC0nRerGlSUrw1_Li_BnAdWOYysSjEaIqCEPWkQlfDWWOhHCBZJGQW7RlZZ9qReKKByM2s/s1600/mug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicjjpTWVCbSUrdD85l5x6Wo6GfTvXBv5DTnMqsVDdYKn-IgffCC4N_uS5ILOcqL4ux0d-9qyC0nRerGlSUrw1_Li_BnAdWOYysSjEaIqCEPWkQlfDWWOhHCBZJGQW7RlZZ9qReKKByM2s/s320/mug.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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Country ham and eggs over easy, while the jukebox plays "Life is Like a Cup of Coffee"<br />
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The Po Monkey's Lounge, a former sharecropper's shack, stands in the middle of a cotton field 2 1/2 miles west of Merigold, MS. Mr. Willie Seaberry, proprietor and cotton farmer, lives in a small back room of the lounge. Since the late 1950's, two nights a week his home opens to the public. Mondays play host to exotic dancers from Memphis. This was Thursday, family night.<br />
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James Bennett still runs his BIP record store as well as his gospel label <a href="http://www.justmovingon.info/LABELS/J&BRecords.html">J&B Records</a>. In the past he has released soul, blues, and rap on his other labels called Traction, Retta, and Big Thigh. In the early 1980's he created the La Jam label exclusively for Bobby Rush.Eric Feldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16360744417670610461noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048333480916510773.post-28119256812419132732011-04-17T10:57:00.001-07:002011-07-21T14:43:17.543-07:00Queen of HeartsWe spend most nights in Jackson at <b><a href="http://www.msbluestrail.org/_webapp_2199931/Queen_of_Hearts">The Queen of Hearts</a>. </b> Chellie B. Lewis, nephew of bluesman Eddie Boyd, has owned and operated the club since the early 1970's. He books the music and does the cooking.<br />
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This first clip features the music of King Edward, backed by Prentiss Lewis on bass and Charlie Jenkins on drums.<br />
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Margaret Rogers' first husband was murdered by robbers in their grocery store. She met and married her second husband, Reverend H.D. Dennis, in 1984. Rev. Dennis, who conducts church in the school bus outside, promised to turn her store into a palace.<br />
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Eric Feldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16360744417670610461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048333480916510773.post-73404141545399445672011-04-17T10:43:00.001-07:002011-09-12T10:58:17.767-07:00Larry and Sharon'sBefore heading North, Ozy makes a slight detour to pick up some more yard sculpture from Larry Grimes and his wife Sharon. Their home is out on Hwy 49 in the Mississippi Delta, just down the road from Parchman Penitentiary where Larry formerly worked as a guard. <br />
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Former boxer and sometime helper of Ozy. He needs his own movie.<br />
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This concludes my first road trip with Ozy. For 2 1/2 weeks we shared a van, a motel room and the same odd hours. We pretty much were together 24 hours a day. I hope I conveyed a glimmer of what that experience was like.<br />
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There are things that are hard to capture like the improvisatory and magical nature of Ozy's life, a life filled with recurring patterns, coincidences, and synchronicities. <br />
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There are people, places, and things that I wished I had filmed; the cotton- filled air of the Mississippi Delta at harvest time, the Katrina evacuees I met at every motel we stayed at, motels that had the identical sign at the check-in desk, "FEMA IS NO LONGER PAYING YOUR BILL."<br />
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There was a club in Austin, The Scoot Inn, where I forgot to bring my camera. Ozy was annoyed at me for that. But I got a second chance when Ozy invited me back on the road with him.Eric Feldmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16360744417670610461noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7048333480916510773.post-82984253688038323242011-04-17T10:39:00.001-07:002011-07-29T15:15:10.094-07:00Austin, TX - Scoot InnSpring 2006<br />
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