Joe Tex
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Joe Tex: Successful Singer Texas-Style
Profile by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 23 April 1966
JOE TEX started his career on a gamble with a flourish when he left Texas, after graduating from high school, to try for an audition ...
Joe Tex, Little Richard, Robert Parker, the Isley Brothers et al: the Village Theater, New York NY
Live Review by Robert Shelton, The New York Times, 15 August 1966
KEY TO THE BLUES IS SHOWMANSHIP Dancing and Costumes Add Dash to 30 Singing Acts ...
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, January 1967
I LIKE TO write songs from true experiences. Things that have actually happened. You can't get away from the truth of everyday life. Sometimes I'll ...
New Albums From Aretha Franklin, Mose Allison, Love et al
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 25 February 1967
NEW US SOUNDS INCLUDE Soul (Joe Tex & Aretha), Cool (Andy Williams) Beat (Shangri-Las, Love) Jazz (Mose Allison) ...
New Albums From The Doors, Roy Orbison, Sonny & Cher et al
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 22 April 1967
Orbison Gibson album — a fine LP but could be depressing... ...
The Wonderful Adventures of Joe Tex
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, July 1967
WE'VE HEARD very few Joe Tex songs, even album songs, that we didn't tike. He tops that on stage with his great band. Plus, he's ...
Singles from the Beach Boys, the Parliaments, Wilson Pickett et al
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 November 1967
AMERICA AWAKES, INCORPORATING 'ROCK-SOUL-BLUES REVIEWS' BY NORMAN JOPLING ...
Bonanza Atlantic LP Issue: Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Joe Tex et al
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 9 March 1968
IN AN EFFORT to smash the Tamla domination of the LP market, the rival R&B giant Atlantic have put out a batch of soul and ...
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 21 December 1968
ALVIN LEE, guitarist-leader of Ten Years After, recently returned from a successful Stateside tour, lent an ear to this week's selection of albums and singles ...
Clarence Carter, Arthur Conley, Joe Tex, Sam & Dave: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 31 January 1970
IT'S BEEN three years since a soul tour of such importance has been to Britain. Then, in the spring of 1967, it was Otis Redding ...
Profile by Pete Wingfield, Let It Rock, October 1972
IVE NEVER met Joe Tex, never met anybody who has; never seen or heard an interview with him, never read a feature on him — ...
Retrospective by Cliff White, Black Music, October 1975
Joe Tex, the greatest rapper of em' all, has made yet another (!) comeback. Cliff White traces his 20-year history... ...
Bumps 'n' bruises in Fayette, Mississippi: On tour with Joe Tex
Profile and Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 14 May 1977
THE SUN burns out of a clear blue sky like in all the best travel brochures; the air is warm and moist and heavy with ...
Joe Tex: Back to the grind for a bump man
Interview by Robin Katz, Record Mirror, 28 May 1977
"WHEN I had a hit with 'Skinny Legs And All' I had a lot of hassles from women's libbers," recalled a hoarse Joe Tex on ...
Joe Tex: The Soul Of An Underdog
Profile and Interview by Joe McEwen, The Boston Phoenix, 31 May 1977
THE SHOW was held at South Philadelphia's Spectrum, still a brand-new facility in 1969, but it could well have been the fare at North Philly's ...
Joe Tex: The Gut Feeling For A Hit
Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 20 June 1978
Joe stays close to the streets and the people who buy the records. Thus, he has a good instinct for what's a likely hit and ...
Joe Tex: Ain't Gonna Bump No More
Obituary by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 28 August 1982
Soul legend Tex is dead ...
Joe Tex: The Clown Prince of Soul
Sleeve notes by Barney Hoskyns, 'The Very Best of Joe Tex' (Charly Records), May 1988
WHEN NASHVILLE publisher-producer Buddy Killen first met Joe Tex in 1961, the singer already had six years of recording and performing under his belt. They ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Joseph Arrington Jnr, 8 August 1933, Baytown, Texas, USA, d. 13 August 1982, Navasota, Texas ...
Buddy Killen, 1932-2006: Nashville record man and music publisher
Obituary by John Broven, Now Dig This, December 2006
BUDDY KILLEN, the highly successful Nashville music publisher, songwriter and record man, died of liver and pancreatic cancer on November 1, 2006 at age 73. ...
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