The music of Hubby Jenkins may sound like an anachronism. Songs reaching back to the 1920s. But it is music that still has relevance. Jenkins has a Feb. 15 show at The Little Theatre. Jeff Spevak talked with Jenkins about his mission.
What Hubby Jenkins was hearing on a cable TV news show had reached an obscene level of sanctimonious nonsense. At a rally in Virginia, attended by 22,000 well-armed Americans, on the January day set aside to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a speaker was appropriating the memory of the slain civil rights leader on behalf of their pro-gun cause.
"The icon of nonviolent protest, assassinated by a gun in our country, would be pro-gun," Jenkins says, slowly, evenly, incredulously.
"It's important to know your roots, and to know your history, and to be empowered to boldly go forward."