" O Criminal rapacious skies with bloody waves of pain. Dirty mountain travesty above the corpse strewn plain." Erasing heinous history with a brilliant plan to keep people stupid, join us as we listen and learn from Angelo Earl who enlightens about a deep history of Black music and exploitation.

A veteran of the recording industry, Producer of Soulstreet Records, you will shortly hear some of his work as performer of electric guitar on Al Green's "He Is The Light", Bobby Rush's "Southern Soul", the Bar-kays' "The Real Thing", He also contributed vocal work on Isaac Hayes' "Branded", and toured with both with the Jackson family and with the Funk Brothers.

Today he devotes some of his time to the Blues Hall of Fame Museum in Memphis opened in 2015 and run by the Blues Foundation. Well aware of how the Blues and even the history of Civil Rights have been commodified and mined for tourist dollars in the southern states, he conveys, "there is more to life than memorabilia," Together, we tackle the disturbing paradox, of reverence and museumification of Black music across the South, just at the same time Human Rights Watch denounces the state takeover and repeal of voting rights that has left Mississippi, the state with the highest black population in the US without any statewide political representation in 2026 as America celebrates 250 years of a revolution again the lack of representation in the British parliament.

(See: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/18/black-voting-rights-in-mississippi)

Stay tuned to learn about:

• the hard core of the Blues,
• the "gladiator syndrome" that runs America
• first hand memory of learning about the assassination of Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Junior live on television.

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