Rambling Through the Brambles
Old friends Hobart Taylor (Black) and Clark Taylor (White) tackle thorny issues by talking about race in America, particularly as it concerns Black and White Americans. Both are Boomers who grew up in the seminal age of racial integration. Hobart in the North, Clark in the South. There is so much to talk about. But how do we?
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Hobart Taylor
Hobart was born and raised in Detroit, MI, graduated from Brown University and spent many years in Texas and California working in radio, education, public service and music management.
He currently resides in Irvine, CA
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Clark Taylor
Born in New Orleans and raised in a small town nearby, Clark eventually moved to California to become a professional comedian and screenwriter. He eventually returned to college, earning a Masters in History from San Francisco State University.
He has worked as an oil field laborer, bartender, author, film producer, teacher, screenwriter, restaurant manager, internet entrepreneur and carpenter.
He currently resides in St Louis, MO
Episodes
![OJ Simpson Part 2](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 05, 2024
OJ Simpson Part 2
Sunday May 05, 2024
Sunday May 05, 2024
Still more to say about the case and the context and what it all means.
![OJ Simpson Part 1](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Sunday May 05, 2024
OJ Simpson Part 1
Sunday May 05, 2024
Sunday May 05, 2024
We do our typically searching analysis of what OJ means in the current moment.
![Ramble On!](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Friday May 03, 2024
Ramble On!
Friday May 03, 2024
Friday May 03, 2024
We are getting into the personal as we continue to explore. Today Hobart asked about subtle or hidden prejudices we may each hold about the other's race.
![RTTB April 2, 2024: Beyond Beyoncè Continued](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
RTTB April 2, 2024: Beyond Beyoncè Continued
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Hobart and Clark continue to wander the thickets of the Black experience with Country Music and maintain the effort to dig into the personal as well as the broadly cultural.
It's as if we are still trying to find each other before we can move any further.
![Beyond Beyoncè: Mickey Guyton, Brittney Spencer, Rissi Palmer and Chapel Hart!](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Friday Mar 15, 2024
Hobart is mad. Mad that he and I weren't really aware of Mickey Guyton, Brittney Spencer, Rissi Palmer (!) and Chapel Hart among a group of Black women taking a stand for country music that speaks to their lives as well as the typical country music that we all know about. We discuss that dissonance -- and Beyonce -- and Hobart weighs in on the vagaries of the music business around all this.
![Ramblings about the Mission and Frantz Fanon](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Ramblings about the Mission and Frantz Fanon
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
Wednesday Mar 13, 2024
As we begin to hatch this crystal egg of a project, we are working on dealing with the meta-ness of what we are doing. Fortunately this episode is a quick 20 minutes!
![RTTB 3: Dom Flemons Interview](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
RTTB 3: Dom Flemons Interview
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Saturday Feb 03, 2024
Hobart had a chance to interview Dom Flemons, Grammy-award winning co-founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops as well as Grammy nominated multi-instrumentalist and vocalist on his new album Traveling Wildfire.
The interview took place at the famed Focal Point music club in Maplewood, Missouri, near St Louis. Information about Dom Flemons can be found on his website: www.theamericansongster.com
![First Encounters](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Friday Dec 22, 2023
First Encounters
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
In this initial effort, Hobart and Clark discuss their first encounters with someone of another race.
![RTTB: Chris Smither](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
RTTB: Chris Smither
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Thursday Dec 21, 2023
Hobart and Clark spoke with blues legend Chris Smither at the Focal Point in Maplewood, MO
![RTTB #1: Walter Parks ”Ain’t Nobody’s Business...”](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/16809438/Hobart_Clark_1984_p4qft8_300x300.jpg)
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
RTTB #1: Walter Parks ”Ain’t Nobody’s Business...”
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Saturday Nov 18, 2023
Hobart and Clark, wowed by guitarist, vocalist and archivist Walter Parks at a performance at the legendary Focal Point in Maplewood, MO, decided to interview him for the inaugural episode. We discussed Walter's influences from a childhood in north Florida where he encountered the blues through Led Zeppelin and the Allman Brothers before embarking on a decades long career that saw him working for a decade with legendary folk musician Richie Havens as well as touring alongside songster Guy Davis. As a White man deeply committed to, and expert in, the African-American blues traditions, Walter also fronts Swamp Cabbage as a touring blues band and has done significant work with the Library of Congress, recording "hollers", traditional African-American church hymns and other blues songs whose provenance is often lost to time. How to give or assign credit? What's the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation? What constitutes cultural reclamation? So many of these questions confront American music and our own cultural understanding of America and its influences. Hobart and Clark seek to answer some of these questions while starting to learn how to talk to each other about them across their racial "divide".
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Rambling Through the Brambles
Two old friends, Hobart Taylor and Clark Taylor (brothers from different mothers) make their way through the thorny thickets of race relations in America, especially as it affects Black and White America.
We will interview Americans from all walks of life.