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Howard Tate interviewed on WMBR's Lost & Found program (extended)

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Soul music great Howard Tate will be interviewed by telephone by host Alex McNeil on a special extended edition of "Lost & Found", filling in for the "Coffeetime" show, starting at about 2:00 PM. Howard Tate's musical career began in 1966 with his debut record, "Get It While You Can" whose three hit songs -- the title track (made even more popular by Janis Joplin), "Ain't Nobody Home," and "Stop" -- garnered him critical acclaim. Rolling Stone called the album "a spectacular showcase of gospel-powered singing, with a joyous, shrieking falsetto that became Tate's trademark." Despite his success, Tate was unhappy with how the music business was treating him in the early 1970s, and then decided to walk away from the industry and not look back. To all who knew him, Howard Tate vanished off the face of the earth for nearly 30 years. After facing hardships and spending part of the 1980s on the streets of Philadelphia, he turned his life around and started again as a minister in the early 1990s. In 2001, a musician Tate had toured with back in the 1960s ran into him in a supermarket, and within hours, Tate's old producer Jerry Ragovoy called -- resulting in his returning to the studio, and his Grammy-nominated album "Rediscovered". Tate is now performing in the U.S. and internationally, and will be making a rare New England concert appearance this Saturday, June 2nd at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington.

Location: 88.1 FM

For more information about this event, contact:
Eli Polonsky
eli@wmbr.org
617-253-4000

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