Baynard Woods
Baynard Woods is the co-author of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt Police Squad. He is currently working on a book for Hachette Books about the transmission of white supremacy.
An Omnivore essay from the Summer/Fall 2020 issue.
Johns has said that, even as a child, he wanted to be an artist—only he didn’t know what an artist was. “In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art so I didn’t really know what that meant,” he said. “I think I thought it meant that I would be in a situation different from the one that I was in.”
A Points South essay from the South Carolina Music Issue.
Esquerita and Little Richard stayed in touch as friends, collaborators, and rivals until 1986, when Little Richard was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Esquerita died, a victim of AIDS who was buried in an unmarked grave on Hart Island, New York. Their careers had mirrored each other over rock & roll’s first thirty years, playing out the dualities of the sacred and the profane, music and money, and God and the Voola, what Esquerita called his mojo, the spirit that motivated his music.
