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Arthur Severio
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Marlena Shaw
I was talking to my friend Lola on the phone one day about music and our go to divas are Esther Phillips and Marlena Shaw. I realized...
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Arthur Severio
- Jan 1
- 4 min
One for the Road
It’s a quarter to three, there’s no one in the place except you and me So set them up Joe, I got a little story I think you should know...
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Arthur Severio
- Jul 28, 2023
- 2 min
Happy Birthday Bobbie Gentry, RIP Sinead, and my new Podcast and Catching up
I woke up today in Asheville to social media posts about Sinead O’Connor. Funny how we love people after they pass. Sinead is the...
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Arthur Severio
- Jun 3, 2023
- 6 min
Southern Gothic, Ode to Billie Joe, and Red Oak Road
My grandma Annie rose every morning before daybreak to bake biscuits or cornbread that she put in her iron skillet for my grandpa Henry...
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Arthur Severio
- May 28, 2023
- 4 min
Let's Stay Together
“Let me say that since baby Since we’ve been together Ooh, loving you forever is all I need….” “Jr. Pearl, I need you to run down the...
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Arthur Severio
- May 20, 2023
- 5 min
Grey Gardens
New Orleans is known as a magical place where we live carefree. Many of us like to go to the same restaurants, where we request our...
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Arthur Severio
- May 2, 2023
- 7 min
The 500 Club
I am happy to be writing my story finally. It has been a truly cathartic experience. So to you, the reader, I am reading your comments....
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Arthur Severio
- Apr 22, 2023
- 6 min
Feed me Tacos and Tell Me I'm Pretty
on one of my excursions to Paris Road in Chalmette with Amy I have this primal need for survival that I inherited from my father. My...
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Arthur Severio
- Apr 15, 2023
- 9 min
In the Pines
A Corinth, Mississippi Morning "Be careful what you pray for-you just might get it," I learned this from my mother and continue to learn...
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Arthur Severio
- Apr 3, 2023
- 9 min
Kiss Them for Me
Part 1: "It glittered, and it gleamed For the arriving beauty queen A ring and a car Now you're the prettiest by far No party she'd not...
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Arthur Severio
- Mar 5, 2023
- 1 min
“Mardi Gras Indians” by Nikesha EliseWilliams
2023 Louisiana State University Photo by Arthur Severio Cherice Harrison, Nelson, Queen Reesie, an influential culture bearer for the...
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Arthur Severio
- Feb 21, 2023
- 2 min
818 Bourbon
Pearl started her mornings by making a pot of Community Coffee medium roast in a drip pot on the stove. My mother passed down that...
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Arthur Severio
- Jan 19, 2023
- 4 min
Happy Birthday Ruthie
Ruthie in front of the Cornstalk Fence (photo by Arthur Severio) In the early eighties, the French Quarter was full of people who lived...
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Arthur Severio
- Nov 13, 2022
- 5 min
Loretta
Loretta Lynn's life on the road and what she wore to an awards show as the 1974 winner for duet of the year
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Arthur Severio
- Dec 18, 2021
- 3 min
Art in America: on being published
Cherice Harrison in a photo from our first time working together. Collaboration is the action of working with someone to produce or...
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Arthur Severio
- Nov 29, 2021
- 7 min
Bobbi Jo
(Bobbi Jo at the Crossing with Will Antill) Reflections As another year has come and almost gone, I find myself sitting in my man's chair...
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Arthur Severio
- Nov 7, 2021
- 1 min
Stories of Highways and Motels
In the last couple of years, I've become obsessed with everything from the mid-century era, from its architecture to its interiors to pop...
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Arthur Severio
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min
Puppy Love
I remember the first time I held the little puppy that my brother got for me. Of course, he and his friends had already named her Lady...
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Arthur Severio
- May 9, 2021
- 5 min
Happy Mother's Day
With everybody Jazz Festing in place last weekend, I started digging in my archives for pictures from festivals past. While looking...
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