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pussytooth:

c-a-s-i:

<3


when the man & I were first dating 100 years ago & split up for a few weeks I used to play this song on the jukebox & get so sappy sad sack drunk at the tiny dive around the corner from my solo apartment. Oh, this song!!




sacraments:

“I [was] serious about turning little churchgoing Jamesetta into a tough bitch called Etta James…. I wanted to look like a great big high-yellow ho’. I wanted to be nasty.”

James ascribes the blonde-yellow hair and black eyebrows that she adopted early in her career to being closely associated with street-based sex workers and drag queens at the time. That’s who she was emulating.

(Source: colorlines.com)



smooth:

Piccsy :: Dead at 73, Etta James









saltallarounddatrim:

never gets old




Heart break songs because I just got my heart broken. Really, if this is what it feels like, it sucks. Also it sucks that I feel like singing this to my dog. UHHHHHH, the kkk took my baby away.