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MOONLIGHT STILL FEELS RIGHT

Atlanta, Georgia’s Bruce Blackman, the man behind Starbuck, won’t be slowing down any time soon. With plenty of chart-climbing tracks under his belt — some of which date back nearly 50 years, others released just months ago — he’s still doing what he was always meant to do: making music from the soul.

It all started in the ‘70s when Blackman was in college and met the woman who would inspire the iconic “Moonlight Feels Right.” “I asked her out twice, and she said no,” Blackman explains. “The third time, we were coming back from a pep rally at the stadium. The wind blew slightly, and I walked beside her and asked her out. She said yes.”

Fast-forward five years later, Bruce was sitting on his apartment floor playing some notes on a Minimoog when he laid out the refrain of “Moonlight Feels Right.”  He remembered the gust of the wind on that evening, the moonlight shining above, and recalled the story through the lyrics. Little did he know the song would

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Delta Legend Bruce Blackman – Moonlight Still Feels Right

Good Mornin'! Good Mornin'!

When you're a kid everybody controls the radio but you. As the last of four siblings and two parents all sorts of radio was inflicted upon me from an early age. My dad listened to Paul Harvey and the Chicago Board of Trade futures prices, my mom listened to WABG TV Channel 6 soap operas and then a bunch of static of stations not quite tuned in, my brothers enforced a lot of country music and some '70s rock and my sister enrolled me in Huey Lewis and the News, Carole King, Rod Stewart and other soft rock.

I never got to pick a station, I just had to endure it all.

So Christmas of I got a black-leather bound transistor radio that ran on batteries and plugged in the wall. I could park it in my room or take it with me – I did both. It was all AM all the time and I loved it.

Living in south Sunflower County the strongest signal was always WNLA AM out of Indianola. So my best friends became John D

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