Let’s kick off with her version of the classic “That Lucky Old Sun” Big Mama Thornton, “That Lucky Old Sun”, an American standard from 1949 composed by Beasley Smith with lyrics by Haven Gillespie. So allow me to bring my own little homage to this true R&R original. Willie Mae herself has never been inducted into that same R&R Hall of Fame. Both songs are in the list of 500 essential songs to which we owe R&R according to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton is of course best known as the original interpreter of two songs which catapult two white artists into stardom: “Hound Dog” (Elvis Presley, 1956) and “Ball and Chain” (Janis Joplin, 1967). ~Every week from the vaults… a vinyl rarity which crackles, grinds, moves, grooves, hurts, or just awfully tickles… An intensely atmospheric and sometimes dark novel, Shadow-Town is the first in a four-book series.No copyright infringement intended, all rights belong to their respective copyright owners © source: Big Mama Thornton, 1981 (Los Angeles Public Library) Still, the whistle of the coffin-train continues to blow. Everything builds to an exciting climax as the cousins discover the power of courage and loyalty. At the end lies Shadow-Town, where Tam has been enslaved by the Whisperers.
Soon Jack and Rose are matching wits with the Dickensian Speculators, bunking with the mysterious Red Man, and riding the rails with the inhuman Clatterfolk who run the coffin-train. Before they get very far, Tam disappears. But the bickering cousins, goaded by Jack's wild friend Tamlin, end up daring one another onto a much more dangerous path. These aren't just stories, however, and their grandmother warns them to stick to the road when traveling. Although he's never ventured beyond the dusty fields, Jack likes to terrify Rose with stories of Shadow-Town, where creatures called Whisperers force the zombie-like victims of the Sleeping Sickness to work for them. Cousins Jack and Rose have been sent to live on their grandmother's farm for the summer.
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