I’LL SAIL MY SHIP ALONE Country Music on King Records, Part 3

Moon Mullican is a key figure for anyone trying to understand American music, yet he remains vastly underappreciated. The 1930s was a time of superb piano players, from boogie-woogie greats Albert Ammons, Meade “Lux” Lewis, and Pete Johnson to western swing masters Fred “Papa” Calhoun and Al Strickl...

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Published inKing of the Queen City p. 74
Main Author Jon Hartley Fox
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Illinois Press 03.09.2009
Subjects
Applied sciences
Art education
Art music
Artists
Arts
Arts participation
Astronomical objects
Astronomy
Business
Business structures
Country music
Economic disciplines
Economics
Employment
Engineering
High culture
Instrumental music
Keyboard music
Labor economics
Music
Music education
Music genres
Music theory
Musical performance
Musical rhythm
Musical time
Musicians
Natural satellites
Occupations
Performing arts
Physical sciences
Popular music
Rock music
Sails
Singers
Singing
Transportation
Vehicles
Watercraft
Western art music
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Summary:Moon Mullican is a key figure for anyone trying to understand American music, yet he remains vastly underappreciated. The 1930s was a time of superb piano players, from boogie-woogie greats Albert Ammons, Meade “Lux” Lewis, and Pete Johnson to western swing masters Fred “Papa” Calhoun and Al Stricklin. The 1950s belonged to such rock and roll piano players as Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and Fats Domino. The connection—both cultural and musical—was Moon Mullican. A piano-pounding wild man from the piney woods of east Texas, Aubrey “Moon” Mullican (1909–67) liked to say he played music that “made
ISBN:9780252034688
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