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So they conjured up the idea of a two-man, two-woman group to take their
place at Stax.
First in was John Colbert (aka J. Blackfoot), born November 20, 1946 in
Greenville, Mississippi. He’d grown up in Memphis and overcome a stretch in
the Tennessee State Penitentiary to land at Stax, though the label hadn’t
issued any of his solo efforts. Norman West, Jr. came next. Born in Monroe,
