Discovering Connees wheelchair |
Last year I decided that I was going to find Martha's farm. No, I was compelled to find it. And believe me it wasn't easy. I asked Chica what the address was for the farm and she said that it di...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:53:00 GMT |
A New Moon Since the Centennial |
Over a month has passed since we sat around in the Marigny Brasserie drinking those utterly sinful "Connee" lavendar champagne cocktails. The glow refuses to leave the horizon despite all time that se...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:14:00 GMT |
Special Salute to Connie this Sunday on WFUV |
Yet another suggestion on how you might spend your Sunday evening with Sister Constance as we celebrate her 99th birthday. Rich Conaty of WFUV will be featuring CBoz on his weekly show "The Big Broadc...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:35:00 GMT |
99 - and Still Sounds Fine |
Bodacious Greetings - Bozzies,Wanted to remind y'all that this Sunday, December 3, would be Miss Connie Boswell's 99th birthday. So here are some suggestions on what you might do to honor Sister Const...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:33:00 GMT |
A Fur Piece |
About 74 years ago the Boswell Sisters pulled into the L&N station in New Orleans on an early October morning. Connie, Martha and Vet weren't used to being up so early, but they had spent the last...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:36:00 GMT |
Old Chik on the Road to Boz Part 5 |
There are a million other things I should be doing today. But after reading yet another inspiring blog by Debbie Davis on myspace I've decided I must take a break from this hundred degree Texas heat a...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:39:00 GMT |
Old Chik on the Road to Boz Part 4 |
There's a play in the works, massive amounts of research and now I've stumbled into a mini mission: honoring the last recording the Boswell Sisters ever made.
Time to call for reinforcements.
But ho...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 05:39:00 GMT |
Old Chik on the road to Boz part 3 |
Help me Obi Wan, you are my only hope.
I had searched for anything Boswell and was coming up short time and time again. Then, another in a of a string of miracles occured.
To borrow liberally from "Th...
Posted by on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 14:39:00 GMT |
Old Chik on the Road to Boz Part 2 |
continued....
So, this old chik is hearing voices from the back of the Lincoln and some spooky vapor is telling her a story about evacuating from Katrina and how this isn't the first time he's been th...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:06:00 GMT |
Old Chik on the Road to Boz |
It's late on a Saturday night for we'uns of the sunrise society. But it's been a full day on the road to Boz and the ideas don't stop coming even when the right words do. So I linger with the thought ...
Posted by on Sun, 28 May 2006 23:36:00 GMT |
