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CALS Arkansas Sounds
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Arkansas Sounds is a project of the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), focusing on Arkansas music and musicians both past and present.

Little Rock, Arkansas

www.RonRobinsonTheater.org
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The chapter of "Willie Nelson on Willie Nelson" featuring my interview comes from a page on my website, where the audio can be heard. Thanks to Paul Maher Jr. for featuring my brief moment talking with a hero in his book. Photos from 2005: Cadace West/Miami Herald hibblenradio.com/radio-backgr...
Willie Nelson Interview
Very rarely in life, if we get the chance to meet people we admire, do they live up to our expectations. Willie Nelson couldn’t have been cooler. My opportunity to interview him came when he was in…
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December 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Derelict block of East 2nd Street. You could walk out the front door straight to the river. Saw Taj Mahal, Roy Buchanan, The Band, Albert Collins, Killer Bees (Papa Mali’s old group) and a ton of 80s progressive rock bands there.
December 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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I was trying to remember where SOBs was.
I knew “down by the river.”
Only saw it once when I was in high school.
I knew they had great music.
December 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Got to see him once, when he and Buddy Guy came to Little Rock in 1986 & played the SOB club, approximately where the Clinton Library is now. Photo (from earlier that day) by Art Meripol who worked at Arkansas Gazette at the time
December 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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1. Sonny & Bobby Rush in 2005
Photo by me
2.Sonny w/Jeff Stone, me, Mac Arnold, Zac Harmon, 2006
3. Dave Riley, Sonny, CW Gatlin, Donna Herula, Steve Cheseborough, me. 2011
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Sippie with Bonnie Raitt on David Letterman’s show. She comes in at about the 9:05 mark.

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Bonnie Raitt, Sippie Wallace on Letterman, April 27, 1982
YouTube video by Don Giller
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November 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Really dig that Bo Diddley looking guitar!
October 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM