Abbey Lincoln

By Sean Plaistowe | March 24, 2014

  “….I never got any offer from the Americans. They figured I was dangerous or something.”   May 14, 1996 By phone from her apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan Abbey Lincoln was more than a remarkable singer and songwriter: She was a remarkable person, who made a mark as a civil rights…

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Aretha Franklin

By Sean Plaistowe | November 5, 2013

October 9, 2013 I came across the YouTube clip below the other day and seeing the young, Afro-ed Aretha Franklin brought back a happy memory: seeing the Queen of Soul in concert for the first time.

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