Category: A Family Conversation Podcast

A Prince Sleeps To God’s Lullaby

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It’s a rainy day in Georgia…

At 11:00am EST, a prince will be laid to rest to the heavenly tune of “God’s Lullaby.”

To honor his memory, I am reblogging this amazing piece, written by my dearest cousin, and prolific writer, the late Ronald W. Brown.

For more like this, select category: “Ron’s Time Tunnel.”

Until we meet again, Rest In Peace, my love. ❤️

~LadyG

Ronald W. Brown, aka Ronbrownx
Ron’s Time Tunnel: God’s Lullaby

A Family Conversation: Bicentennial Blues

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“A Family Conversation” is a storytelling audio series that features weekly discussions between blogging cousins LadyG and Ron Brown on current events along with favorite posts from each other’s blog.

Updated: 7/3/2021

Contains adult language

In this post, the cousins are talking about:

  • Ron’s milestone birthday–chile, he fine as frog’s hair!
  • How Ron shut LadyG’s mouth
  • An “irksome” new friend who introduces Ron to some new thangs
  • The fact that slow talking Southerners are not dummies.
  • Whether or not Gil Scott-Heron was the first rapper
  • Ron presents Scott-Heron’s “The Bicentennial Blues” which points to the paradox of Independence Day.
  • The importance of research
  • Defining terms
  • Work songs as the musical ancestors to the blues and appreciating the fact that they gave birth to R&B/Soul music and damn near everything else thereafter!
  • America’s legacy of hypocrisy
  • Babies on buses; a horrible incident in South Carolina (March 2, 1970)where a group of 150-200 white men rocked and turned over school buses during integration.

Links:

THE BLUESOLOGIST: THE BICENTENNIAL BLUES By: Ron Brown

Evil that once drove angry whites to overturn school buses is stirred again

Join us next Friday, July 8th for a continuation of the conversation.

A Family Conversation: The Cousins Go All Around Robinhood’s Barn With Music From 1983 & Gramp Ruins Donuts FOR-EV-AH

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“A Family Conversation” is a storytelling audio series that features weekly discussions between blogging cousins LadyG and Ron Brown on current events along with favorite posts from each other’s blog.

Very strong adult language

Caution: This is a long one

In this post, the cousins are talking about:

  • Partying in a hole in the wall with NO floor in the back of Alabama
  • Costee J McNair– DJ extraordinaire
  • Shanghai and big cousins blocking 
  • LadyG causes a ruckus at the club
  • Vanity vs Mary Jane Girl
  • James Mtume is deep go Google him
  • Back to Mary Jane Girls
  • “Daddy, how you know that song?”
  • “Doo Doo Brown”
  • Uncle Charlie…and The GAP Band (Acronym for Greenwood, Archer and Pine streets in Tulsa, Oklahoma) aka “Black Wall Street”
  • Tell me if you still care….Ron “hangs out” with a friend
  • The Lord giveth us thine BASS!
  • Kashif and the Unsung curse
  • Sentence fragments in music
  • Heffa is the highest of compliments for a singer from Black people
  • Ron places “The Manhattans” in yearbook stone
  • Aretha tells you ALLLLLLLL something 
  • Atomic dog and them Q-Dogs
  • The Isley’s were the shit and Chris Jasper was that guy! An innovator! 
  • Ron’s voice, Ernie’s guitar and Chris Jasper’s classical training and composing make The Isley Brother’s sound
  • Otis Day and The Nights
  • Animal house was funny until it wasn’t–yeah, we see you
  • The New Edition movie was good as hell
  • In ‘83 nobody cared about your grief, counselors be damned!
  • Gramp takes Ron’nem on a trip and ruins donuts forever!
  • Tack doesn’t want any death on his food!
  • Music is memory
  • Music therapy–fine, but give me R&B
  • There’s a deep and important memory locked in the second verse of…
  • He liked-ded it!

My Jams 1983

Ron Brown courtesy of The Time Tunnel

Thanks for joining us on this trip.

Be here next Friday for an all new conversation with your favorite crazy ass Georgia cousins!

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