by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Sep 25, 2021 | Blog
I first heard Elvis Presley perform “If I Can Dream” on December 3, 1968 as it premiered before my eyes in the finale of his televised “Elvis” special, later known as the ’68 Comeback Special. Like its companion piece of the following year, “In the Ghetto,” it...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Aug 7, 2021 | Blog
The “Folk Revival” of the late 1950s inspired an interest in the early recorded acoustic blues music of the 1920s and 30s – blues being an expression of folk music from the Deep South. Those who recorded the blues back then were black, so it was made available on what...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | Jul 8, 2021 | Blog, Rock and Rollers, Uncategorized
In 1967 a prodigy of pop music appeared in southern California. Emitt Rhodes was a teenage wunderkind. His angelic tenor would soon render dozens of self-penned pieces in a rapidly-evolving style of lyrical and melodic beauty. The quality, maturity...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | May 28, 2021 | Blog, Uncategorized
In the mid-1970s the health and fitness craze had begun. “Health club” chains sprang up around the country. In 1976, after being in and out of universities for a few years, I found myself working at one of these clubs in an affluent northern New Jersey...
by Jeremiah Nighthawk Taylor | May 10, 2021 | Blog
The two men [angels] said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to...
