Posted on 07 September 2010
This month, Time Life Music will release the 16-disc "Hank Williams Complete Mother's Best Recordings ... " featuring 72 mini shows the country star did as advertising spots for Mother's Best flour in 1951." Continue Reading
Posted on 06 August 2010
All 3 hrs and 42 minutes of it! 3pm Sunday August 8 - Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for seniors 60 and over and children 12 and younger. A full range of concessions, from popcorn to beer, is available. Continue Reading
Posted on 23 July 2010
Like "the wild ass" that stamps on the grave of Jamshid, "but cannot break his sleep," all the traffic on Royal Street cannot bring Festorazzi's back from the dead. Continue Reading
Posted on 23 July 2010
Oscar Driver was a big man so it took a lot to kill him. Continue Reading
Posted on 21 July 2010
To the present generation this system may not sound good, but in Captain Festorazzi's day there were many persons who liked it. Continue Reading
Posted on 09 July 2010
A rundown of the festivities and a few words with the Mobile Arts Council's Charlie Smoke Continue Reading
Posted on 06 July 2010
Walkaboutcity.com is a fascinating product of the dot-com boom which remains as an artifact portraying Downtown Mobile at the turn of the millenium. Start here on Dauphin across from Cathedral Square and walk around. It was created by then-Mobile resident Joann Okuzono-Perkins of Digital Zo LLC. The idea was to give a virtual online tour of Mobile. [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 04 July 2010
While Washington was on the Delaware and Franklin was in Paris, what was happening in Mobile? Who were James Willing and the 21-year-old Bernardo de Galvez? Who fought in the Battle of Mobile? Continue Reading
Posted on 30 June 2010
Soldiers and Captives, Boarders and Brides: The Many Lives of Condé Charlotte By Laura Jane Rogers and Elizabeth Wade Alabama Heritage, Summer 2010 Situated near Fort Condé, Mobile’s Condé Charlotte Museum House boasts a complex and often mysterious history. In 1957 the National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of Alabama purchased the house and began efforts [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 June 2010
3-Day Cd Release Event at the Alabama Music Box Thurs July 29-Sat July 31 Continue Reading
Posted on 25 June 2010
The Eslava Tomb can usually be found covered in pennies and other coins (including Mardi Gras Doubloons) for good luck. So if you are having financial problem's of any kind stop by the Eslava Tomb and "pay" Miguel Eslava his "taxes". Continue Reading
Posted on 24 June 2010
From American Review Lifestyle Journal Deborah Gibson Deguire…sold him peanuts at A&M Peanut Shop in downtown. (WIlson) didn’t have much, just a picnic basket filled with sacks of peanuts. “He’d come about every two weeks and get about 26 pounds from us and he go and sell them at the corner. Sometimes in his younger days, he’d walk [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 16 June 2010
Eslava Street, Eslava Lane, Eslava Creek, Eslava Creek Parkway, in Mobile, are all named after this family, as are Eslava Drive, in Foley, Alabama and Eslava Circle, in Lillian, Alabama. Continue Reading
Posted on 14 June 2010
Mobile native Bryant McGill is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, award-winning author, poet, broadcaster, university lecturer and Congressionally recognized Ambassador of Goodwill. Plus Gary Busey's androgynous extraterrestrials and more. Continue Reading
Posted on 03 May 2010
ModMobilian finishes out Jazz Appriciation month with… Fred Wesley (trombonist) and Bernard Odum (bassist) both played with James Brown in the early 1960’s. Fred Wesley Jr., trombonist, grew up in Mobile, the son of Fred Sr., a music teacher at Mobile Central High School and big band leader. He joined the Ike and Tina Turner Review in [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 02 May 2010
Before and after pictures of the building at the corner of Old Shell Rd. and Georgia Ave. – a corner store from long ago… Continue Reading
Posted on 01 May 2010
For Sale sign at Magee Farm, Kushla – with a note for Commisioner “Jabba the Hut Dean” Continue Reading
Posted on 30 April 2010
Who’s this? Prize: Crescent Theater ticket or Blind Mule coupon. Email doc@modmobilian.com with answer. Continue Reading
Posted on 24 April 2010
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and ModMobilian shines a light on a few of the port city’s own Jazz royalty. Urbie Green is a jazz trombonist best known for his work with Gene Krupa and Woody Herman. [In the 1970's] Urbie began experimenting with the “Green Monster”, a King trombone using a King Vox Amp pickup in [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 21 April 2010
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and ModMobilian shines a light on a few of the port city’s own Jazz royalty. Cootie Williams was a jazz/R&B trumpeter best known for his work with Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Charlie Parker. He is reputed to have innovated the popular use of the “plunger mute”. Here’s an R&B track [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 17 April 2010
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and ModMobilian shines a light on a few of the port city’s own Jazz royalty. Ward Swingle is a jazz pianist, vocalist and arranger who may be best known for the Swingle Singers. He was born in Mobile and played in area Big Bands before going on to live on Paris [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 16 April 2010
Mod Mobilian interviews Eddie Curran – author of the controversial and riveting book: “The Governor of Goat Hill: Don Siegelman, the reporter who exposed his crimes, and the hoax the suckered some of the top names in journalism” Visit the website www.eddiecurran.com to peruse and buy the book, additional thoughts by Mr. Curran, some Alice Cooper and [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 12 April 2010
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and ModMobilian shines a light on a few of the port city’s own Jazz royalty. Greely Walton was a tenor saxophonist who played with Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway, as well as the musical director for the Ink Spots. Here he backs up Her Highness, Bessie Smith: Continue Reading
Posted on 10 April 2010
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and ModMobilian shines a light on a few of the port city’s own Jazz royalty. Sonny Phillips is a jazz organist, whose material leaned into soul-funk. Continue Reading
Posted on 08 April 2010
Violinist Tom Morley leads groups of up to 15 in learning trad Irish music. Morley said people of all ages from Baldwin and surrounding counties bring a variety of instruments, including fiddle, flute, whistle, guitar, Irish tenor banjo, Irish drum and mandolin. Participants arrive with varying skill levels. If you’ve got a bouzouki or somesuch, but are shy [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 05 April 2010
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and ModMobilian shines a light on a few of the port city’s own Jazz royalty. Greg Gisbert, playing with the Buddy Rich Orchestra. (Gisbert’s solo begins at 1:44) Continue Reading
Posted on 01 April 2010
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and ModMobilian shines a light on a few of the port city’s own Jazz royalty. Billy Bang (b. William Vincent Walker) was born in Mobile, but his family moved to Harlem while he was still an infant. After serving in Vietnam, he returned to New York and joined the Sun Ra [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 March 2010
On January 3-4, 1832 Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, and Gustave de Beaumont travelled through Mobile on their way around the U.S. An excerpt from de Tocqueville’s journal on that day and the next: Bad choices in little republics are partly accounted for by the fact that men of distinction do not canvass for honors [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 March 2010
On January 3, 1832 Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, and Gustave de Beaumont travelled through Mobile on their way around the U.S. An excerpt from de Tocqueville’s journal on that day: “The greatest merit of the government of the United States is that it is powerless and passive. In the actual state of things, in [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 15 March 2010
One of Mobile’s most charming pieces of public art will soon be returned to its pedestal in Spanish Plaza. The statue of The Little Colt was a gift to the city of Mobile from the city of Cordoba, Spain in 1967, but was damaged in Hurricane Frederic and removed from the park. For all practical purposes, [...] Continue Reading
