User:Tofu98/Spanky Alford/Bibliography

Initial Bibliography

 * 1) “This Alabama guitarist should be a lot more famous” Matt Wake, February 13, 2019 AL.com

https://www.al.com/life/2019/02/this-alabama-guitarist-should-be-a-lot-more-famous.html

Includes useful quotes from interviews that provide context to how artists that worked with Spanky viewed his work. Also includes some of Spanky’s influences, and his connection to north Alabama.

2. “Eddie Spanky Alford” Discogs.com https://www.discogs.com/artist/567047-Eddie-Spanky-Alford

Includes many more works than those listed on the wikipedia page. Could have useful info on those adjacent wikipedia pages too.

3."Singing Love Songs to Mr. Death": Racial Terror and the State of Erection in D'Angelo's "(Untitled) How Does It Feel?"

Aimé J. Ellis

https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.library.unt.edu/pub/103/article/450905

Although it does not explicitly mention Spanky, it has some adjacent cultural information that could prove useful to explaining the importance of Spanky’s collaboration on Dangelo’s records, since Spanky played on this track.

4. Someone Has to Care By Christian Scharen · 2021

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Someone_Has_to_Care/Xs9OEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Spanky+alford&pg=PA54&printsec=frontcover

Selection would benefit contextualizing Spanky’s contemporaries as well as his collaborators.

5. Playing ChangesJazz for the New Century By Nate Chinen · 2018

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Playing_Changes/VHxnDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Spanky+alford&pg=PA164&printsec=front cover

Talks about Spanky’s connection to the great Roy Hargrove, and other musicians. Describes the feel of the so called ‘Texas Cats’.

6. Jazztime May 2001

Includes local north alabama legend ‘Ken Watters’, allows me to connect him more to Alabama scene

https://books.google.com/books?id=uScEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA220&dq=Spanky+alford&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic2Ib2w6D9AhVgkYkEHXcdDYQQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=Spanky%20alford&f=false

Example has a simple line up from a local jazz festival. Mentions local legend Ken Watters, shows some more of Spanky’s connections to north Alabama.

7. 33 ⅓ Voodoo by Pennick, Faith A.

https://web-p-ebscohost-com.libproxy.library.unt.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=7&sid=2cec8cd0-6e54-47e7-a965-2d243fd32d7b%40redis&bdata=JnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#AN=A2111651&db=ram

Haven’t had a chance to crack the cover on this one yet. However I’m optimistic based on your recommendation that it might have a page or two dedicated to personnel and their roles on the record that would be useful.

8. Great God A'Mighty! the Dixie Hummingbirds

Celebrating the Rise of Soul Gospel Music By Jerry Zolten · 2022

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Great_God_A_Mighty_the_Dixie_Hummingbird/8pFwEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Spanky+alford pg=PA322&printsec=frontcover

Provides additional context to Spanky’s gospel guitar roots. Also talks about Spanky’s skills as a teacher, which he had many students later in his life.

9. D'Angelo's Voodoo Technology: African Cultural Memory and the Ritual of Popular Music Consumption

Loren Kajikawa

https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.library.unt.edu/stable/10.5406/blacmusiresej.32.1.0137?searchText=d%27angelo+voodoo&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dd%2527angelo%2Bvoodoo&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-6744_basic_search%2Ftest-1&refreqid=fastly-default%3A4eb81a49f89f886d7f3fe7bf1e0373e4

Again, more cultural information. Not much direct information on Spanky but including adjacent information can help strengthen some of the Wikipedia entry.

10. Dilla Time The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm By Dan Charnas · 2022

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dilla_Time/SBEqEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Spanky+alford&pg=PT133&printsec=frontcover

Mentions Alford’s connection to other works, as well as why he was chosen for that particular recording session.