Wilbur Niles Thrust 5/9/25 The rarer than palm hair

The rarer than palm hair

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this LP is the sound of that talent erupting all over the stage of the famed Apollo Theater

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Wilbur Niles Thrust 5/9/25 The rarer than palm hairA track about an African king recorded in the back of a car wash commands $1,600. At the makeshift Man Ray Studios in Akron, Ohio, where barrels of soap were rolled away to make room for recording, guitarist Wilbur Niles and his then girlfriend keyboardist Machelle McNeal recorded Ja Ja. It was titled after King Jaja of Opobo in Nigeria, who lived during the 19th century, rising from slavery to become a wildly successful broker of palm oil. Niles