Ruth Brown
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Interview by Bill Bentley, L.A. Weekly, 28 June 1984
IT HURTS the heart to have to drive by the remains of the Parisian Room, festering in the summer sun like some fenced-off sore on ...
Sleeve notes by Kirk Silsbee, Fantasy Records, June 1991
FRANK OWENS, arranger/pianist and strawboss of the music on this album, was running down his chart to the band at Sage and Sound in Hollywood ...
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, March 1995
Rock 'n' roll treated her mean, but Ruth Brown is back with a vengeance. ...
Sleeve notes by Pete Grendysa, Rhino album, 1996
GRANDEUR IS A term rarely used to describe a singer of popular music, but no other word can describe the physical presence and magical personal ...
Ruth Brown Keeps Deep R&B's Fire Blazing
Profile and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, The Boston Phoenix, 27 October 1997
MISS RHYTHM is on stage working the blues, and she's got the audience on a string. Sashaying up to the microphone in the ballroom of ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Ruth Weston, 30 January 1928, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA ...
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