O V Wright's unmarked grave

Overton Vertis Wright was without a doubt one of the greatest of all soul singers. How sad then that his premature demise isn't even marked with a gravestone. I learned this from the excellent Backroads of American Music website http://www.backroadsofamericanmusic.com/archive/2008/03/13/r-e-s-p-e-c-t-for-o-v.aspx-for-o-v.aspxw.backroadsofamericanmusic.com/archive/2008/03/13/r-e-s-p-e-c-t-for-o-v.aspx

and when I go to Memphis I feel I really should pay homage to the great O V Wright. Like James Carr, another great Memphian, his was a tormented life, hooked on drugs as he was, but his music surpassed almost anything that has come out of the southern soul firmament. Here are a few of his original LPs on the Backbeat and Hi labels.