Tell us the story again about how a young Rick Wakeman, who laboured in
the fields of western Mississippi picking cotton, left the tin-roofed
shack of his share cropper parents and made his way, at the age of nine,
to New Orleans, where he picked up classical European influences while
playing organ nightly in various bars and a certain French Quarter
bordello, before being forced to leave the city after a fellow musician
was accidentally killed in a drunken argument over a leslie cabinet. He
worked his way north to St. Louis and ultimately Chicago, where he put
together an unwieldy combo and after a long club residency became known
as the father of that most curious and beloved musical style, Delta Prog.
j. barrick, folkways musicologist
zappaboggs wrote:
> Note to self:
>
> Call the guys... We are forming a Blues/Prog band... Or a Prog/Blues
> band...
>
> "Nothing can change the shape of things to come."
before fleeing the city after accidentally killing a man in a drunken
fight over a leslie cabinet