ARKANSAS BLUES PHOTO LOT: Calvin Leavy, N. Little Rock, Jungle Hutt, Pine Bluff

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ARKANSAS BLUES PHOTO LOT: Calvin Leavy, N. Little Rock, Jungle Hutt, Pine Bluff
This lot consists of four black & white 6” x 4” glossy photos:
Three are from an Arkansas blues documentary project in 1976, which resulted in the two Arkansas Blues CDs on the Stackhouse label available from my eBay store. The photographer, Cheryl Cohen, photographed a man dancing inside the juke joint to the music of Duke Bradley (one of the artists featured on the CDs); another shot on the porch of the Jungle Hutt is of Jackie Wimbley, son of the woman who ran the club.
Cohen’s photo of singer-guitarist Calvin Leavy was taken at
a 1976 recording session at the Party Lounge in North Little Rock. Two songs from the Calvin Leavy session have been released on the CD
Arkansas Blues Volume 2 -- The Bands: Meet Me in the Bottom.
Leavy was best known for the 1970 hit
Cummins Prison Farm
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In an ironic twist of fate, Leavy, who had not served time in prison when he recorded
Cummins Prison Farm
or the songs on the Arkansas CD, was later convicted of multiple drug-related charges and incarcerated at Cummins in 1992. He was transferred to a facility in Pine Bluff in 1993. Blues enthusiasts joined in his appeal for parole, but he died in 2010 in a Pine Bluff hospital while serving his sentence.
The fourth photo, by Jim O’Neal, shows the Jungle Hutt, aka the Jungle Club, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on a winter day in 1979 when there was snow on the ground. In earlier days the Jungle Hutt had another name, the Jack Rabbit Club. Among the blues artists who played here were Robert Nighthawk, CeDell Davis, Boyd Gilmore and Houston Stackhouse.
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