I Got a Woman

Charles music was a great addition to the music industry. “Confession Blues” was Ray Charles first recorded record. “Confession Blues” got more radio play.” He moved to New York and signed a contract with Atlantic Records. His audition with Atlantic Records went well. “Charles opened his voice to a range of sounds, from screams to whispers that were all his own.” He would write music from listening to gospel. One of his main songs created from gospel was I Got a Woman. I Got a Woman was number two on the Billboards. The song Georgia is now the state song for Georgia. His addition to music would not only have his managers happy but also his fans. He also won the love of the teens with the song What’d I say. “They began calling him “The Genius.” He received many awards through his musical career due to his music…

I Got a Woman was top charting song for Ray Charles in 1955. This recording was different and inspired by a gospel song “It Must Be Jesus” by the Southern Tones. Ray Charles was able to take the gospel song and add a jazz and rhythm and blues to it. Though, this recording was not a cup of tea for everyone, it was able to sell in two different markets of music and be a success. This analysis will look at the genius Ray Charles who combine the elements of jazz, gospel, and blues structure to…

In his book, James Brown the Godfather of Soul, he states “I wasn’t supposed to be James. I wasn’t supposed to be Brown. And I wasn’t supposed to be alive.” (Brown & Tucker, chapter 1 pg. 1) In Barnell, South Carolina in a one room shack on May 3, 1933, James Joe Brown Jr. was born. (Brown & Tucker, chapter 1 pg. 1) From the very beginning, Brown’s life had various struggles from his mother leaving to his father’s gambling habit. (Brown & Tucker, pg.4-7) Despite his father’s gambling habit,…

He couldn’t go back the other way because all of those people wanted to eat him. He couldn’t go on the lake because he didn’t know how to ice skate. Just then, a sly and hungry Grinch arrived. The Grinch had a plan. “Hold on to my tail Snowman and I will help you across the lake.” The Snowman thought you himself, “I will be safe just holding on to his tail.” So the Snowman left the Grinch help him across the lake. By the middle of the lake, the Grinch told the Snowman, “you are too heavy…

“Rock Awhile” by Goree Carter and “Devil Got My Woman” by Skip James have their similarities and their differences. These two male baritone’s songs have a similar format to their lyrics as well as a similar topic. These two songs differ in instrumental set up as well as delivery. In both songs Carter and James both talk of women in their lyrics. In “Devil Got My Woman” James sings of being “that woman man”, how she “changed her mind”, how he “loved that woman…took her from [his] best friend”,…

Babe I'm Gonna Leave You Babe, baby, baby, I'm Gonna Leave You. I said baby, you know I'm gonna leave you. I'll leave you in the summertime, Leave you when the summer comes a-rollin' Leave you when the summer comes along. Babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, babe, Baby, baby, I wanna leave you. I ain't jokin' woman, I got to ramble. Oh, yeah, baby, baby, I believin', We really got to ramble. I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do, I can hear it callin' me back home! Babe, oh, babe... I'm…

because it just made the woman more insane by what she was seeing in the wallpaper throughout the story. At the beginning of the story, the woman just thinks the wallpaper is ugly and disturbing. Her mental state has not changed from when before they got to the house. The woman states, “There is something strange about this house -- I can feel it” (Gilman 316). This foreshadows that something later on in the story is going to happen because of the house. The woman likes going outside and…

Dr. Talitha LeFloria is the author of Chained in Silence. Dr. Talitha LeFloria is a professional historian that teaches and writes books. She teaches African American Studies at Carter G. Woodson Insitiue for African - Americans and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Dr. LeFloria got her bachelors at Clarke Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. After she got her bachelors she went to get her masters at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. When she received her masters she…

The theme of this story is that even if arguments happen, things can always get better. In the Paring Knife, a husband and a wife had been cleaning their kitchen, and the husband found a paring knife under the refrigerator. The husband had a memory of how that got there. The husband and the wife had had a big dinner with each other and they got drunk. When they were drunk they went and slept together. But while they were in bed together, they had an argument and the husband got up and went to…

When I think of snakes I think of something powerful, sneaky, and evil. Every since I got exposed to Medusa on the cartoon show “The Powerpuff Girls” They portrayed her as being this powerful, evil, and sneaky lady and made the snakes rooted in her head represent that as they go crazy and every since then it stuck with me. So when I first saw the image of Medusa by Caravaggio I saw all the snakes on her hair going in different patterns just as I would see on the show. I automatically saw what…