Post by philunderwood on Jul 4, 2011 13:32:30 GMT -5
Last evening I was channel surfing and ran across a documentary on Fats Domino. It centered on a concert he gave a couple of years after Katrina to raise funds for rebuilding his neighborhood. It jumped back to various stages of his long career and showed comments from other R&B and Blues performers like these shows tend to do.
Since I’ve been a big Fats Domino fan since the fifties when he first came on the scene, I really enjoyed it. The thing that I was most impressed with was the fact that he had been inactive for ten years and at the time of the concert, was seventy-nine and didn’t look or sound any different than he did earlier in his career.
You youngsters may not appreciate Fats, but he was a pioneer in both R&B and blues, and had a style all his own. From what his fellow entertainers had to say, he was quite an interesting person too.
Since I’ve been a big Fats Domino fan since the fifties when he first came on the scene, I really enjoyed it. The thing that I was most impressed with was the fact that he had been inactive for ten years and at the time of the concert, was seventy-nine and didn’t look or sound any different than he did earlier in his career.
You youngsters may not appreciate Fats, but he was a pioneer in both R&B and blues, and had a style all his own. From what his fellow entertainers had to say, he was quite an interesting person too.
