It wasn’t in my personality to become a scary gangster, but when the promoters tried not to pay I had to get my gun out even though I was shaking in my shoes. I didn’t like guns! Eventually I told them to get me one small enough to fit in my handbag. The first thing they told me was to get a gun. ![]() ![]() In the UK there was one chart, which is how it should be.ĭid you play the ‘chitlin’ circuit’ in the 60s? RedGammon To cross over you needed a big label and money behind you. ![]() Why do you think that your early 70s classic albums ( I’m Just a Prisoner, Stand By Your Man, Candi Staton etc) are less canonised than other ‘classic’ albums of that period by the Stones, the Beatles etc? mesmīack then I didn’t get on the same chart as those guys because Black artists on smaller labels were put in the R&B charts, not the pop charts.
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