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Bad boy of gospel music : the Calvin Newton story / Russ Cheatham.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cheatham, Russ.
- Series:
- American made music series.
- American made music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gospel musicians--United States--Biography.
- Gospel musicians.
- Newton, Calvin, 1928-.
- Newton, Calvin.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Biography -- Music--> ""I messed up,"" Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. ""These were years of my life that I could have been singing gospel music."" During his prime, he was super-handsome, athletic, and charged with sexual charisma that attracted women to him like flies to honey. Atop this abundance was his astounding voice, ""the voice of an angel."" This book is his prodigal-son story. Audacious, Newton never turned down a dare, even if it meant climbing on the roof of a speedi
- Contents:
- Ancestors
- Big boy
- Bible training school
- Headed straight to the top
- Singing like an angel, fighting like a demon
- Advice from two sources
- In the army
- Wild and crazy
- The battle of the bands
- Touring and recording
- The slide
- A new era
- A matter of style
- The magic of their singing
- Ralph Carmichael
- a contract with God
- The fat lady sings
- "We sang at every
- pig trail in the state"
- Gentlemen songsters off on a spree
- Picking up the pieces
- From rock'n'roll to rock bottom
- Searching
- Wonder woman
- Wedding bells and prison cells
- If I had wings
- Musical chairs
- Gospel fried chicken
- Still magic after all these years
- Making money
- Awakening
- Colson and parole
- Out of the depths
- The holy accident
- Redemption
- Wasted years
- why?
- Sunset.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes discography (p. 319-325), videography (p. 325-326), bibliographical references (p. 327-330), and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-43453-9
- 9786613434531
- 1-60473-591-0
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