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S108: The Sculptor

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Javier Leiva

True Crime, Society & Culture, Technology

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Sharon McConnell-Dickerson is preserving the Mississippi Delta blues with her own two hands. She's doing it by creating molds of some of the most influential blues musicians of our time. The lifecasts include a mask of Bobby “Blue” Bland, Little Milton from Memphis, “Honeyboy” Edwards from Chicago, and Pinetop Perkins from Clarksdale, just to name a few – almost 60 musicians total. http://mcconnelldickersonart.com/blues-lifecast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Creative Apple.

0:04.0

The new Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook are better together.

0:13.0

Take hands-free selfies which automatically synced your Chromebook,

0:16.1

ready to edit, and access recent chrome tabs across both devices.

0:20.2

The new Galaxy Z Flip-5 and Chromebook, better together.

0:24.0

Available on Sky Mobile.

0:26.0

Bluetooth and internet connection required.

0:28.0

You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. At the age of 27,

0:35.0

Chair McConnell Dickerson worked as a flight attendant and a cook.

0:43.0

I was flying on corporate and private jets cooking for, you know, all kinds of, you know,

0:52.0

executives and private families, vanities, musicians, actors.

1:01.2

You may have heard of one or two of her passengers.

1:05.0

Some of which, you know, famous people like Donald and Ivana Trump and their family was young then, their three children.

1:15.0

I was in the late 80s that I flew with them.

1:20.0

Some of her other passengers included Barbara Bush, Henry Kissinger, the Beach Boys, Carly Simon,

1:27.0

not a bad gig until one morning. In between a series of flights, everything changed.

1:34.4

So when I woke up in Chicago many years later,

1:38.7

it was such a shock.

1:39.8

I was on a trip, and I woke up and it was like a heavy fog and set in.

1:45.0

Sharon opened her eyes but she couldn't see.

1:50.0

She was a really hard warning, you know, literally feeling around for my shoe, you know?

2:02.9

And I don't know how I made it that day,

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