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Heidi Lambert is the Artistic Director for Mountain Laurel Studios. Currently teaching advanced ballet and pointe for the Chattanooga Ballet, as well as advanced jazz for Baylor School. Heidi is a Board Member of the Tennessee Association of Dance, and a member of Actors Equity.

THE EVENT
The Mike Smith Scholarship Charitable Trust
has been established for area minority college students who will pursue studies in accounting or the arts.

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The Friuts Of Labor

On display @ BB King's Los Angels

PAINTING THE BLUES

Gray continues creating work rich in southern imagery. His new series Painting The Blues is a beautifully soulful look into a 3-dimensional world of Church House stained glass colors and rustic self-taught expression. His is a fresh look into the past, taking things old and forgotten, and breathing the visual color of life back into what seems a fading memory of southern culture. Gray's work is like finding an old photo of your great grandmother long since lost and forgotten. Once you've found it and reconnected yourself to your own past, you treat it like a treasure to be handed down to the next generation, so that they, too, can know and have a connection to their own past history./Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

Thanks for dropping by!
Your artist, Gray

THAT SURE WAS ONE "GREAT BALLS OF FIRE" WEEKEND!
When I arrived friday afternoon downtown Memphis was on fire. No one was hurt, but the oldest church in the city was lost ): along with several cool old buildings. One of the rooms in my hotel caught fire, but not much damage just one window.



I spent most of my time writing music on (Bobby Whitlock's) piano which was in my room. He co-wrote Layla and Bell Bottom Blues with Eric Clapton. I think I got a couple tunes out of her. The party was crazy! Roller skating girls, Harley riders, Art and some great GREAT music. I also got to meet the folks who bought my "No Name Charlie & The Memphis Street Sweeper" painting. All in all a great time! I had a professional photographer along with me but these shots are from my personal film camera. Below was one of my personal Fav's that night.


ANN PEEBLES:
"I Can't Stand The Rain"
Called the "greatest record ever" by John Lennon, "I Can't Stand The Rain" deliciously blends blues, gospel and pop into an incomparable Memphis soul stew. Understandably her biggest hit, the song peaked at ..6 on the R&B charts in 1974.



Song for song, I Can't Stand The Rain represents the cream of Memphis based Hi Records' creative output, standing right alongside anything Al Green ever recorded for the label. Under the nimble direction of Hi Records head Willie Mitchell, the brilliant Hi house band laid down simmering grooves for Peeble's vocal explorations. Backed by the scorching horns of Stax veterans Andrew Love and Wayne Jackson, the fluid rhythms of the Hodges Brothers (guitarist Mabon "Teenie," bassist Leroy "Flick" and keyboardist Charlie), the unstoppable beats of drummer Howard Grimes, and the supporting vocals of singing team Rhodes, Chalmers and Rhodes, there was really no way Peebles could lose. Here was the same winning sound that drove Al Green's records to the top of the charts. Yet despite all its strengths, I Can't Stand The Rain was not the massive success it should have been. Over the years the album faded into relative obscurity, though it remained quite popular in Europe. If not for British label Dennon Records, one of the finest female soul records of all time might have tragically remained out of print. Fortunately this powerhouse of early '70s Southern Soul is back again for all to enjoy.



A special thanks to Tom and Sandy @ The Talbot Heirs in Memphis for giving me a great place to create and a wonderful insturment with which to do so.
Talbot Heirs In Memphis

Cool Slideshows

A big thanks to Wystan August Photography for shooting the event
Wystan August