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Great Persuader

After 40 years of street-corner symphonies, Jerry Lawson learns to sing with a band

By Gilbert Garcia
May 23, 2002

Jerry Lawson doesn't get rattled easily. Lawson, the lead singer of the Persuasions — arguably the finest a cappella vocal group of all time — has experienced just about everything the music biz has to offer over the last four decades: He's made 21 albums, toured with Aretha Franklin and...
B-Boy Wonder

Megadef is the smack-talking, beat-juggling wild child of an embattled DJ scene

By Gilbert Garcia
May 16, 2002

Rule number one for aspiring performers: Always know the room you're working. After all, Ozzy Osbourne might be the self-proclaimed "Prince of Fucking Darkness," but when surrounded by high-powered, tight-ass pols at the recent White House Correspondents Dinner, he was dapper and well-behaved, with nary a dove sacrifice all night...
Miseducated No Longer?

Lauryn Hill's bitter new acoustic medicine is as exasperating as it is intriguing

By Gilbert Garcia
May 9, 2002

About halfway through her new live record, MTV Unplugged 2.0, Lauryn Hill stops to consider her public image. "I don't know what the press is saying," she tells the rapt, borderline-fawning crowd, "'cause I don't really listen to the press too much, but I know the view is I'm emotionally...
Chico, The Man

Jazz drumming great Chico Chism fights to keep his groove

By Gilbert Garcia
May 2, 2002

There's a famous story about Sonny Boy Williamson's attempt to record with the Yardbirds in the mid-'60s. The band entered the session with the cockiness of emerging British pop stars, almost as though they were doing this broken-down mule a favor just by showing up, but when Sonny Boy began...
Club Feat

Boston's celebrates the end of an 11-year run

By Gilbert Garcia
Apr 25, 2002

Years ago, when I lived in Dallas, one of the local bands threw a huge party for itself to celebrate its two-year anniversary. Keeping a band together for two years is a rare, extraordinary feat, its singer explained to me at the time. I remember being amused by his self-importance,...

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