Over dinner that evening, the news barely rates a mention: “Billie Joe never had a lick of sense pass the biscuits, please,” says Mama, adding that it was “a shame” nonetheless. It’s all so matter-of-fact, this “oh-by-the-way” news that Mama delivers, this tragedy that happened up on Choctaw Ridge, told to our narrator just after she’s finished pickin’ cotton and wiping her feet. It begins with the date-“It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day”-and if you listened to the radio back then, the late summer of 1967, you soon knew the whole tale by heart: what happened before and after, on an otherwise uneventful day, Billie Joe McAllister, under mysterious circumstances, jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge. The Animals: A ‘Lost’ Interview with the Five Original Members (The Early Days).Don McLean ‘American Pie’ Documentary, Tour Celebrates 50th Anniversary of the Classic.1979: The Year in 50 Classic Rock Albums.Bill Graham on the Rock ’n’ Roll Revolution.Moodys’ John Lodge: A Singer in a Rock and Roll Band – 2018 Live Review.New Paul McCartney Book From Photographer Harry Benson.The Classics IV Trio: ‘Spooky,’ ‘Stormy’ & ‘Traces’.Radio Hits July 1973: On the Road to Shambala.11 ‘Weird’ Songs Heard on the Dark Side of the Moon.U2, Gladys Knight to Receive Kennedy Center Honors.Cat Stevens’ ‘Teaser And the Firecat’: A Singer-Songwriter Classic.Gilbert O’Sullivan, ’70s Hitmaker, Sets 2022 Tour, LP.Randy Bachman, Burton Cummings Begin Brief 2022 Reunion Tour.When John Mayall’s ‘Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton’ Broke Down Boundaries.Pink Floyd’s ‘Animals’ Gets Deluxe Edition: Listen.ZZ Top’s Busy 2022: New ‘Raw’ Album (With Original Lineup) and Tour.

Steve Morse Departs Deep Purple Due to Wife’s Health.Radio Hits in July 1966: A ‘Wild’ Survey.Jefferson Airplane/Starship’s Marty Balin on the Heaven That Was ’67.

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