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A Cool Weekend
By Joy Lynn Clark January 26, 2022 My stepbrother has business in Louisville from time to time. He invited me to come down. He had been raving on about it for over a year and I also have family there. I came with, and we checked into our rooms. We had a nice dinner and planned for our big next day. My stepbrother headed off to work and I took a rideshare to visit my grandmother’s sisters. My great aunt was still Recovering from her surgery and full of jokes. I was glad because I was really worried when she collapsed at my half sister’s wedding. She is in much…
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The Lake (song)
By Joy Lynn Clark December 28, 2021 This is a track off of spacejet
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Hologram Dance
Tuesday, August 10, 2021 By Joy Lynn Clark I made this record around 2012 right after the Isis Spacejet Chronicles. After attempting to make a retro sounding record where I am singing, a voice inside my Head said, “why don’t you rap now?”. So this album is me as Dazee Dizzle. Although I love to rap I was a little scared. I thought that maybe the world doesn’t want a woman like me rapping. Somehow, I got my confidence back and decided to rap again. The album came out pretty good. Special acknowledgment goes to Ryan Lewis, and Studio One (Who rolled out a mastering addition to their DAW and…
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The Cemetary On the Colored Side (Buried Alive)
By Joy Lynn Clark 3/12/2021 Published on: Oct 9, 2017 @ 05:03By Joy Lynn Clark (this story has been edited from the original) 10/12/2017 I have four ancestors buried at Burr Oak Cemetery on the famous Colored Side. Mother Mamie Roberts, Bishop William Matthew Roberts (CME ), Mamie Thompson and George Thompson I. My ancestor Bishop William Matthew Roberts started Chicago’s Original Roberts Temple. Bishop William Matthew Roberts has an honorary street on Chicago’s Southside (crossing 42nd Street west of Vincennes). The Historic church was much farther East (near Drexel) and was demolished in the mid-1990’s. I am no blood relation to the founders of the New Roberts Temple CME located…
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Blackface The Album
By Joy Lynn Clark BMI 5/16/2016 This is one of the last records that I made on the Southside of Chicago. Just off of 19th street near Lozano Library. Boy did I rock out along with all of the other musicians from the neighborhood. Of course I lost my privacy, and I ended up moving south to get closer to Nashville. I was still fumbling with the titles but, it was still a great album.
