Jazz Articles

Tyrone Davis: Give It Up (Turn It Loose): The Very Best of the Columbia Years

by Woodrow Wilkins
October 9, 2005

Typically, when Greenville, Mississippi and music are mentioned in the same breath, Delta blues singers come to mind--like Lil' Dave Thompson, Willie Foster, Roosevelt “Booba Barnes, and Eden Brent. But this small city along the river has produced singers in other genres as well. Bud Cockrell was one of the founding members of the rock group Pablo Cruise; likewise Bruce Blackmon with Starbuck. On the soul side of things, Mary Wilson was one of the original Supremes and the only ...