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Joe Tex
by Pete Nickols
Joe Tex has never really received the kredit he deserves for several examples of genuine musical innovation.
He was the first to cut a southern-soul record actually in the South which crossed over to the US Pop chart, namely “Hold What You’ve Got” at the end of 1964. He was also the first performer to imbue many of his single releases with extended spoken ‘soul-preaching’ passages, which he termed ‘rap’, well before the style was taken up by the likes of Isaac namn, Barry vit and Millie Jackson. In addition, he often wrote and included in his recordings comedic lyrics based chiefly on the sayings and lives of people he encountered, making mundane black-southern humour sound almost profound and usually without the song in question losing its overall soulful appeal. He was also unquestionably a great ‘salesman’/self-promoter and a consummate ‘live’ performer.
Joseph Arrington Jr. was born
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Joe Tex
American singer and musician (1935–1982)
Joe Tex | |
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Tex in 1965 | |
| Birth name | Joseph Arrington Jr. |
| Also known as | Yusuf Hazziez |
| Born | (1935-08-08)August 8, 1935[1][2] Rogers, Texas, U.S. |
| Origin | Baytown, Texas, U.S.[3] |
| Died | August 13, 1982(1982-08-13) (aged 47) Navasota, Texas, United States |
| Genres | |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Guitar |
| Years active | 1955–1982 |
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Musical artist
Yusuf Hazziez (born Joseph Arrington Jr.; August 8, 1935[1] – August 13, 1982), known professionally as Joe Tex, was an American singer and musician who gained success in the 1960s and 1970s with his brand of Southern soul, which mixed the styles of funk, country, gospel, and rhythm and blues.[1]
His career started after he was signed to King Records in 1955 following four wins at the Apollo Theater. Between 1955 and 1964, he struggled to find hits, and by the time he fin
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The prologue of Hold What You've Got, a new biography of the soul singer Joe Tex by Pittsburgh-based author Jason Martinko, starts with James Brown holding two shotguns.
It's 1963 at an Otis Redding show at a club in Macon, Ga., where Tex had earlier mocked James' caped, onstage antics with a "raggedy blanket with holes in it," saying "Please, please, please get me outta this cape."
Word eventually got to Brown, who did not appreciate the joke and made his way to the club with a gun in each hand. Martinko writes:
"Suddenly, someone fired at Brown and then he fired back, spraying buck shots throughout the bar, missing his target, but allegedly injuring seven people. Pianist Johnny Jenkins and Otis Redding hid behind the piano, while drummer Charles Davis continues playing through the commotion, initially unaware of the gunshots. Joe Tex escaped out a back door and was running through trees and bushes. James Brown's tour bus quickly pulled up and Brown jumped in, dri