“All mouth, no action.” “Talk is cheap.” “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hear me.” Quotes like these are easy to say…..until you’re wounded by someone’s carelessly-spoken words. Sometimes it’s an ill-timed joke, other times a piercing verbal barb wrapped in the guise of “bless your heart.” And then there… Continue reading Charlie Wilson: From Down For The Count To “In It To Win It”
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“In It to Win It,” Charlie Wilson CD Review/Preview
…The ascent, descent, and resurgence of Uncle Charlie is the stuff of dreams: most musicians who first hit the charts decades ago are no longer breathing, much less in-demand enough to keep performing. Yet despite the crippling obstacles in his path—-poor management, subsequent poverty, substance abuse addictions and prostate cancer, to name a few—–Charles Kent… Continue reading “In It to Win It,” Charlie Wilson CD Review/Preview
Book Review: “I Am Charlie Wilson”
…..”There I was, sitting on a bench listening to my attorney, feeling small and frightened as anyone could feel at the prospect of losing his freedom when Mahin burst through the courtroom’s heavy wooden doors, pushing past the guard and taking off toward the judge…..she wasted no time before pressing into his hands a business… Continue reading Book Review: “I Am Charlie Wilson”
“I Am Charlie Wilson,” The Man, Music & Memoir
…..”I look that bad?” I asked, lucid enough to know that her tears were for me.”You’re going to die,” she said, shaking her head. “I just don’t want you to die. Look here, I work at this rehabilitation center. It’s north of Los Angeles. You have to come in. You have to come with me,… Continue reading “I Am Charlie Wilson,” The Man, Music & Memoir
Sobriety, Success & Overcoming Adversity, The DMN Charlie Wilson Interview
Alcoholism, a heroin habit and an expensive addiction to cocaine that left him sleeping on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard——Charlie Wilson had weathered it all. But in 1995, as he rebuilt his life and made a committment to sobriety, the R&B legend decided to not merely survive, but to triumph. “I’ve always been a praying… Continue reading Sobriety, Success & Overcoming Adversity, The DMN Charlie Wilson Interview