Jan 17
Rock-a-Bye Baby - Roy Brown
1951
Not a lullaby — pure Roy Brown blues
Early rhthm'n'blues magic : title tricks you, vocals grab you, rhythm hooks you.
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Rock-a-Bye Baby - Roy Brown
1951
Not a lullaby — pure Roy Brown blues
Early rhthm'n'blues magic : title tricks you, vocals grab you, rhythm hooks you.
Turns out he's not a serial killer.
Then.. Pete was just a butcher this entire time and didn't hack, whack, and chopp people up for meat??
The Cramps - "Butcher Pete"
'B-side of "BIg Black Witchcraft Rock". Originally recorded by Roy Brown.'
are we still doing cover battles?
anyway, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY4N5NOAsH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHC16t7CT7E
Original–Cover Battle: Head-To-Head
Butcher Pete
Original by Roy Brown
Cover by The Cramps
Roy Brown Midnight Lover Man
Roy Brown VS Hobey Baker
Roy Brown
Hobey Baker
propaganda below cut
I don't have it handy but you've probably seen a meme that compares corporate theft with little to no prison time vs a guy who finger gun bank robbed $100 and was arrested when he decided to return it and got arrested and sent to prison for fifteen years?
His name is Roy Brown. He's from Shreveport, LA and sometimes he's really into Jesus and other times he's a thoughtful interesting guy with a lot of insight and a good sense of humor. He was my pen pal for several years, and it was kind of like having two separate pen pals: the philosopher, and the devotee.
Here's where i segue to Luigi Mangione.
Roy was the subject of a popular meme people liked to trot out when talking about capitalist greed, corporate corruption, disproportionate sentencing, etc. After seeing it a few times it started to bother me a little because i couldn't find any information about the man himself.
It took some digging, but i found the man i was pretty sure was him in a prison in Louisiana and i wrote him a letter.
He sent me his actual ID to show me he was him, which startled me. He had a lot of faith in me!
He did not know he was a meme.
He did not know there was a petition calling for his release. The petition, sadly, accomplished nothing.
His family was too poor to give him money for his commissary, so Natalie and i would send him money so he'd have a little something. And we wrote letters at a time when he felt very forgotten.
He finally started a work release program and there was talk of him finally being released but he also started having health issues and getting transferred around a lot. I had to send him new letters to new addresses several times. And i also moved several times. Eventually we lost touch.
I'm thinking about him as i see all the Luigi memes.
Right now, Luigi Mangione is being held without parole as a person of interest. He is innocent until proven guilty. He is going to be a meme forever even if he's not convicted.
I don't know if there's a commissary where Luigi's being held. Has anyone looked into that?
It's a small way to give money to people who are imprisoned so they can access a few things they can't otherwise. Sometimes including envelopes and stamps.
POV you live in the Wasteland and come visit me in my bunker for some purified water and broiled scorchbeast brain