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The search function was blotto but I didn't see this yet:

Little Milton dead at 70.

― Erik The Mainer (EZSnappin), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Screwed the link. Try this:

Little Milton dead at 70.

― Erik The Mainer (EZSnappin), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

one of the great stylistic cripples of our time, and that's a compliment.

as far as I'm concerned his greatest five minutes is "Walking the Back Streeets and Crying" with the Stax guys. One of the most perfect of all soul/blues records.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Welcome To Little Milton is good too(with Dave Alvin, David Hood, Lucinda, Muscle Shoals Horns, etc.); was that his last?

― don, Friday, 5 August 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

i love his records. they are always a helluva lot of fun. i had a great live in europe tape years ago that was so smokin', but i can't think of the title. wish i still had it. i think it came out in the 70's.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

Back when "Behind Closed Doors" hit, my friend's Mom bought his version by mistake. (I'm sure, judging by my excessive association with fellow record store employees, she went in and asked for it by title, not artist, and Christopher Columbus discovered it for her). So she got "Woh! Behiiind!" What was he doing back there!

― don, Saturday, 6 August 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

little milton...that's the kid who writes poems on jethro tull's 'thick as a brick', right?

― guythatsaysstuff, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

He covered that too: "Paradise Lost Behind Closed Doors" (kind of like "Gates Of Eden")

― don, Saturday, 6 August 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

salute

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 6 August 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

"...grits ain't groceries and the Mona Lisa was a man (All around the World)" He did a nice version of this one...

― steve-k, Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Just heard "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number," as part of the WPFW 89.3 Fm radio tribute to Little Milton. That's a great one too.

― steve-k, Saturday, 6 August 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Got part of an obit on radio; lots of static, but apparently, he performed almost up until his death, appearing at a festival "the North Atlantic" something? Anybody know what that is?)three months ago. Peter Guralnick talked about how he combined rougher, older blues approach with mellower (like Charles Keil on BB King etc., in Urban Blues, one of my fave music books from 60s: not very oh-wow-man, but not clinical either). And they mentioned a very recent album, but I didn't catch the title.

― don, Sunday, 7 August 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

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