Friday, November 11, 2011

Heavy D, 1967-2011



















News of the death of Heavy D hit me hard for the most ungenerous of reasons. We had age and body type in common. Much of his 1987 debut sounds dated now, but trust me, Heavy D was once a huge star. Time keeps on slipping'...

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My feature on Hermon Mehari and Kansas City's jazz scene is the cover story of this week's Ink magazine.

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I'm intrigued by Rez Abbasi's new album.

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Visqueen is calling it quits.

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Hammerlord's annual Hammerween gig is always fun. Here's footage of this year's event.

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The Low Anthem's What the Crow Brings is available as a free download at NoiseTrade.

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Jimmy Norman has died. (Tip via BGO.)

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You know, Chinese Democracy isn't that bad.

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Kansas City Click: Here are my official picks.

(Original image by There Stands the Glass.)

4 comments:

bgo said...

What were you doing over at 59th and Prospect Ave? I grew up around the corner from the building you shot this photo of. Went to grade school 2 blocks to the west. Know that 'hood' as well as any other in this town. I remember going to this building as a young kid when it was a neighborhood bar. On the other side of 59th was a corner drugstore (Robinson's) and next to it Paul's, a small grocery store where Mom shopped a great deal. Could bend your ear for hours about what it was like in the 1950's and throughout all of the 1960's.

Happy In Bag said...

I'm sworn to secrecy about why I was recently in that neighborhood, BGO. (Not kidding.) Let's set a firm date to get together.

bgo said...

HIB,

Is this bbq joint open still? And if so, know anything about the quality?

Happy In Bag said...

I don't know.