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List of American Doo-wop musicians

A

• Louis-Michel Aury

B

• Philippe Bequel

• Jean Bontemps

• Hippolyte de Bouchard

C

• Jean du Casse

• John Baptist Collins

D

• Jacques de Sores

• Jacquotte Delahaye

• Anne Dieu-le-Veut

• Jean-Marie Dutertre

E

• Alexandre Exquemelin

G

• Michel de Grammont

G cont.

• Pierre le Grand (pirate)

• Louis Guittar

H

• Jean-François Hodoul

L

• Jean Lafitte

• Pierre Lafitte

• François le Clerc

• Leonard Le-Bec

• Raveneau de Lussan

M

• Eustace the Monk

• Montauband

• Daniel Montbars

O

• Olivier Levasseur

O cont.

• François l'Olonnais

• John Ordronaux (privateer)

P

• Pierre le Picard

• Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis

R

• Jean-François Roberval

• Tybalt Rosembraise

T

• Jacques Tavernier

V

• Moise Vauquelin

W

• Emanuel Wynn

Y

• Dominique You


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Bull Moose Jackson


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The high, arched window, the glass a collection of murder weapons skillfully crafted together, cried on the outer surface from the rain pouring down from the storm-ridden skies. Shadows indiscernible in their depth splayed about the room inside the whitewashed mansion, reflections that were like diamonds in their mystery. Darkly, the room slowly was dying from lack of use, subject to time’s black grip and its never-ending tragedies. Like a strange beast, the phonograph from the corner emitted a soft crackling from its hollow brass snout, and time was marked only by a lack of distinguishing. Oily, cheap swill and slowly burning tobacco engaged my sense of smell and hung about the room, clinging to the velvety burgundy of the slightly moldy curtains and dissipating throughout the gray light, betraying someone’s presence. Soft shadows of a high-backed chair that faced the large central window played out on the large Victorian rug, a shadow that was a curtain for certain secret derisions, partially blocking my view of the swelling of briny waves and jagged, stony beaches outside the window. A fleck of lonely white sail drifted on the lonely gray sea, and adventure of a midnight dreary awoke dearly. All lamps extinguished, my only source of light inside the room was that of the weak glow coming from the steel-colored sky which entered, with permission, the sparkling panes and the room behind them.

I entered the room with caution from the large French doors already open opposite the large window, their open state further intriguing my suspicions. What specter dare invade the personal dwellings of Ewin Montgomery? And if not for the thin plumes of bluish smoke issuing from a cigarette up from behind the high-backed chair, I would have been so inclined as to suspect devilry. But, devilry comes in many forms, many murderous in a very real sense in many different subtle ways. Against the iron of the sky and the shadows of the raindrops the blue smoke twisted, poetic and harsh. For a moment, nothing changed as I stood motionless in the doorway.

“Its been a long time comin’,” a voice sneered hollowly. The phonograph had begun a new song. Slowly and sleekly and almost beneath my vision, long fingers, skeletal and brown, groped out villainously on the left side of the chair towards a nearly empty, filth-smeared bottle that was on a small table beside the chair. The orange-red glow of a cigarette held gracefully between two weathered, wrinkled fingers moved with sharp contrast against the backdrop of the softened velvet curtains. Long, yellow fingernails and gem-studded rings clinked against the thin glass of the bottle’s neck. Ruby glinted dully red against the rain. The bottle was drawn out of my sight behind the chair along with the hand, and I could imagine the head of the figure tipping back as I heard the faint slosh of rum.

“I’m gonna stab your kissy, kissy mouth, its been a long time comin’.”

Deadly-soft electric guitar, rife with blues, shivered behind a sneering British accent. Almost alarmingly a leg swung over the right arm of the high-backed chair and a boot-encased foot came into view. It hung limp as though dead, the boot filth-ridden and grimy, the worn leather cracked severely along the natural creases. The wide collar of the upper part of the boot reached to the upper part of the calf, and then hung down, covering the other part of the boot down to a quarter of the way up from the ankle. On the left arm, an elbow comfortably situated itself, encased in a dark green, sea-battered captain’s jacket. Slightly and with impatient suggestion the foot twitched to the tambourine rhythm now sounding softly throughout the room from the phonograph. And as the final beat sounded, a final droplet of rain kissed the window. The leg swung back over the arm of the chair and the bottle was placed, empty, with a definitive clink on the table. Slowly, the figure was now rising from his high-backed chair, and gradually his head and shoulders became visible to me. The figure’s thick black dreadlocks were tied up in a bloodstained bandana that appeared to have never been changed in a substantial amount of time and the greenish-brown captain’s jacket’s collar was gathered about his neck. The needle of the phonograph was the reel of an old film as he began to move, stepping cautiously towards the window. With the half-finished cigarette still in hand, the figure’s arms extended towards the edges of the open curtains, the rings on his hands clinking together. Small attempts of sunlight were beginning to penetrate the spacious room. Then the next track on the record began: a menacing, razor-sharp, jumping rhythm. As if on cue, the curtains were swept sharply closed in a way that made me shudder, shrouding me in darkness. The light from the cigarette was the only illumination within the room as it bobbed over vaguely rightward. I saw an orange shadow of a face bend down and I heard a latch click. Something swung open: it sounded like a large chest. The cigarette returned to eye level and glowed more intensely as he took a long drag from the tobacco. I heard the unmistakable click of a flintlock pistol being cocked. The chest then creaked shut, and the cigarette swung lazily around. It took me a minute to realize, to my horror, the figure was now staring directly at me. My skin crawled. I could not move.

He began his lazy stride towards me, his gaze unwavering. I was afraid that if I moved, I would receive a bullet between the eyes. His boots clunked gracefully on the wooden, naked portion of the floor. As he moved closer and as my eyes grew accustomed to the light I saw the light of the cigarette reflected in sensual and malicious brown eyes. He was only feet from where I stood now, and I could clearly make out his sunken cheekbones and stretched, sun-wrinkled skin in the morbid reddish light of the cigarette. I could not resist as I stared into his eyes. Yet in some strange phenomenon, they were not even looking at me at all, but past me, intently. And with a gaze to kill, he strode beyond me and into the veiled darkness of the halls of Ewin Montgomery’s mansion.