Van Morrison & the Kansas City Blues Shouter
The New Yorker has an article on Van Morrison, in Manhattan for a couple of those Astral Weeks performances, where prompted by a jukebox he talks about some of the first records he listened to in Belfast. On the legendary list is Kansas City’s Big Joe Turner.
Lakeside Lounge, on Avenue B, is known for many things: close quarters, cheap drinks, a photo booth, but most of all for its jukebox, which is full of raw R. & B., country, and early rock and roll. Last Monday afternoon, a short man in his sixties wearing oversized sunglasses and a black fedora cocked his ear toward the speaker overhead. “Joe Turner,” he said. “Big Joe.”
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