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The Toast of Boise

Posted on July 19, 2020 by

By Sikivu Hutchinson From, Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe After years of being on the road touring, running down the known universe like a radioactive bloodhound, Rory had stopped checking miles on highway signs.  In … Continue reading →

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White Lady Coin of the Realm

Posted on December 26, 2019 by

By Sikivu Hutchinson (from Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe) They got up from their work stations to see the commotion outside the window, pressing into the pane, agitated, fingers hot and stiff as dynamite sticks … Continue reading →

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Lobotomy Wings

Posted on July 28, 2019 by

By Sikivu Hutchinson (From Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic) There were things you could do with dead bodies that were most exhilarating. Things  Katy had only dreamed of as a girl, lusting after the medical instruments the white boys tinkered with at … Continue reading →

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Brian Wilson’s Pipsqueak Twang, 1964*

Posted on May 2, 2019 by

By Sikivu Hutchinson Got her first paying job at ten drying dishes in a tea shop, socking away the white lady proprietor’s bottom of the wishing well pennies in a jam jar. Dream was to buy a record store, own … Continue reading →

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$15 Motel Room

Posted on March 3, 2019 by

By Sikivu Hutchinson* Card watched the Little Rock lightning crack through the sky and took another bite of orange. Rind, sticky pulp, seeds and all. An acid plague in his buck teeth. Rind was medicinal, kept the doctor and the … Continue reading →

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White Nights, Black Paradise, The Play: Casting Notice

Posted on August 14, 2018 by

Stage play casting for White Nights, Black Paradise:   Taryn Strayer, an African American lesbian accountant in her late 30s-late 40s. Intelligent and reserved. Zephyr Threadgill, a fifty-something African American woman who enjoys her unofficial role as Temple “prosecutor”. Carol, a … Continue reading →

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L & D

Posted on July 7, 2018 by

By Sikivu Hutchinson What would have been my life is blackness.  But here I am on my skateboard.  Kick, ride, kick.  Black as the rhythm of stones being thrown against a car bumper or respirators sighing in unison, marking time … Continue reading →

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Nashville, 1978

Posted on February 11, 2018 by

  Sound check.  Cochlea peeling feedback.  Tuning till doomsday, then more tuning.  Roadies flopping and panting across the stage, lion taming cables, speakers, amps. C to E minor was home for her. Shudder, slide, shudder. Then thump the strings with … Continue reading →

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The Monstrosity

Posted on September 27, 2017 by

On Rory: It was the humming that got her.  The spontaneous eruptions at the grocery store when Rory was in line with her lethal favorites, a bottle of Jack Beam and a can of creamed corn.  The floating slips of … Continue reading →

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Rock ‘N’ Roll Heretic: The Life and Times of Rory Tharpe

Posted on July 25, 2017 by

Due March 2021 “Those white boys on the major labels would never give an inch to a Negro woman playing race music.” It’s the late 1970s, and ex-Pentecostal Black female electric guitarist Rory Tharpe navigates the cutthroat world of corporate … Continue reading →

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