New York Archives - Karyn Cantees Stagg

Meeting Louie Armstrong

I’ve always loved jazz and the blues. I could say it’s because I grew up in the mountain country of Appalachia, a ‘made to order’...

I didn’t know about the drugs. But I saw the girls, beautiful and fawned over, who used to sit in the big roomy...

New York City was like a drug and I was a junkie. In the late 1960’s, I left the mountains and valleys of West Virginia for the sprawl...

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