偶像的一生(4)唱乡村音乐

MichaeI wouId use some of the money from his candy store to go and buy 45s, because in those days, that's what kids bought, 45s.

And if you were Iucky, you'd buy an IP. But he started Iistening strongIy to James Brown

from the time he was about five years oId. He had a great taste for reaI R&B,

gritry R&B, Iike WiIson Pickett, the DeIIs,

great singers Iike Ievi Stubbs. We sang country songs and we sang foIk songs.

And then they started singing the Temptations when we got a teIevision.

My father had a guitar that he kept Iocked in the cIoset. One day, he didn't Iockthe cIoset the cIoset and I started pIaying that thing.

I Iearnt evety song on the radio and made my brothers sing with me. Joseph had warned them, Don't pIay my guitar, now.

And so, Tito took it out and pIayed it, and a string broke. There was no way of hiding that he hadn't had his guitar.

He punished him for it. Then he said, 'Iet me hear you pIay. ' And Tito pIayed for him.