Talk:Rufus Thomas

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Why is the "Unsuccessful Recordings" section called that? If I wasn't so tired, I'd come up with something more relevant to the content.

Tone and Citations

The section about his professional career is written in far too an informal tone (constantly referring to him as "Rufus" instead of "Thomas" for example) and contains extended quotations that are uncited. I've removed a few examples of point-of-view and peacock-terms, but there's more to be done for sure. Also, the citation style is inconsistent. That's often a pain to fix but, of course, greatly improves the readability and utility of the article. SlubGlub (talk) 23:03, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Apologies. I am responsible for much of what you comment on. I do not know what a peacock term might be. The problem is that I have not absorbed into my prose behavior the Wikipedia style mandates, with prohibitions, ironically enough, given the hydra-headed authorship, on point of view. So, not having been tutored in such, I simply adapted notes from conversations I had with Rufus, falling into a conversational and familiar style, as the discussions, and notes, were in that style as well. Thus: Rufus, rather than Thomas. My conversations with the great man occurred during autumn 1997. I appended bits from the notes of these talks and/or integrated them into the existing article simply because what Rufus shared contains the man's own reflections and runs somewhat counter, at times, to what one reads about him, Stax-Volt, and Memphis soul. Wikipedia has, in addition to the odd prohibition on point of view, the most horrible capacity for, as you say, inconsistency and so on. Back in the day, that's what editors were for, to make pieces more readable, more seamless, and more, well, utile. I will let repairs to my small but apparently botched contributions to this article up to those who are more fastidious, or intrepid, than I. VanDiemen (talk) 19:14, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Music Trivia

It is noteworthy that Rufus Thomas is named in a Beastie Boys song. The song The Maestro on Check Your Head contains the followng lyric, "I feel like Rufus Thomas, the Crown Prince of Dance." A remastered version of the song is a B-side track on the 2009 re-release of Ill Communication. --Blue74 (talk) 04:32, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Discography

The discography is incomplete. I drove him to recording sessions in Brussels in the late 80s or early 90s (must check). He recorded a new version of "If There Were no Music", notably. It was released in Belgium at the very least. There was also talk of an album. At the time, he was managed by the late Freddy Cousaert who had brought Marvin Gaye back into the loop. Junior Walker and Carla Thomas also toured and recorded around the same time. Does anyone else have info about this period? I got the impression he toured Europe every summer. There must be loads of people that saw him play across Germany and Italy. Writie (talk) 07:28, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Year of death?

OK, wait a minute: in the [[1]] section, it says he was last interviewed in 2002 and his last film appearance was in 2003. How can that be? He died in 2001. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Almightybooblikon (talk • contribs) 22:42, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

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