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RIDING A GOSPEL TRAIN
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New Orleans Magazine
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August 1, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright New Orleans Publishing Group Inc. Aug 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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YEARS AGO, A BLUES researcher told me, with an expression of mingled horror and bafflement, that vocalist Little Brother Montgomery lost a bag of letters by Louis Armstrong that he'd been carrying around. This was in Chicago in the 1960s. He lost that bag on a city bus. I never learned why he was toting the letters in the first place. Pearls from Satchmo, swallowed in the maw of the second City. Picture some janitor sweeping out the bus and tossing the bag into a dumpster. Armstrong's letters were famously chatty and fabular - stories re-spun in a mode of personal entertainment for the recipient, in this case another homegrown talent who left the cradle of jazz in the "20s.
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