Timekeeper Audiobook Chapter 1 Sample
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rain. Mm, right. Chapter one. The thing I'm proudest of is being on drums. When the two great Memphis Soul studios, Stacks and High came to life, stacks wasn't even stacks yet. The company was still called satellite records. When I cut Rufus and Carla Thomas singing because I love You in 1959 that was their first big hit. Before that, the company had done some good things, but it didn't become stacks until we brought the Memphis Sound same thing at High. They cut great instrumentals on Bill Black and a scan in before I Came along. But once I joined the group hit with Willie Mitchell's So Serenade in 1968. After that, Willie discovered an pebbles and Al Green and put many other artists in the charts. My beat is the backbone of the Memphis sound. The rhythm of this city runs through my heart. This book isn't just my story. I'm connected to the music in this city. The old masters I played with that I came up under. They told me to listen to them, to tell what's happened and remember they told me to tell the truth for them after they've gone. They've almost gone. As the drummer, I sat in the corner and listened. That was my job. I stayed quiet but absorbed the music and the history going down around me. I worked with some giants and some others who haven't gotten the recognition but should be known. Everyone knows Al Green, but not as many are aware of ov right. I backed both of them. People know and pebbles. I can't stand the rain. But not as many have heard Denise Lewis Siles trapped by a thing called Love. I recorded both of them. I don't know exactly how many records that I played on have sold, but it's well into the millions, with plenty gone gold and plenty of Grammys handed out to other artists as the drummer. It wasn't my job to be out front. I needed to hang back. I don't have to be in the light. The world don't have to see me. I don't need glory. People bought the records. They already feel me. But now it's my turn to step forward and tell all I saw and heard at my age and in the shape I'm n people ask me if I work out, I say Yes, mostly mentally. Everyone's in a rush. Time moves so fast, everyone's in the mood. My mental workout comes from being a drummer. The Lord brought it before me, he said. You're a timekeeper. I never knew what he was saying. I always felt drawn to the beating music. And the Willie Mitchell told me I put the clock on you. I wanted to see if you were on time. You were perfect, right? With the second hand, I'm connected to time.