Ham Hocks And Cornbread [box]

Solo performer: Jerry Clower (spoken vocals).Jerry Clower.Producers: Caroline Prutzman; Snuffy Miller.Jerry Clower's Country Ham is guaranteed to make you happier than a pig in slop -- although the record was originally issued in 1974, routines like "The She Coon of Women's Lib," "Ole Slantface," and "The Young People of Today" sound even fresher decades later, proof positive that Clower's genius is truly timeless. ~ Chuck Donkers

American International Pictures cranked out some of the most action-packed and hard-hitting movies of the 1970s blaxploitation era, and after producing a fistful of violent revenge dramas like Slaughter, Black Caesar and Coffy, the company decided to take a chance on a more positive and emotionally resonant African-American picture with Cornbread, Earl and Me. Set in Chicago in the 1970s, the movie doesn't shrink from the facts of life in the ghetto -- crime, drugs, broken homes -- but also affirms...

There was a village once, not very long ago for those with long memories, nor very far away for those with long legs. Wootton Major it was called because it was larger than Wootton Minor, a few miles away deep in the trees; but it was not very large, though it was at that time prosperous, and a fair number of folk lived in it, good, bad, and mixed, as is usual.