Thanks for that, Billy. Tony Paris has been covering the ATL music scene since the 1970s, and pretty much made Creative Loafing as the city's music journal during the 80s and 90s. He did a huge piece (cover-story, I think) on Bruce and ARU in the early 90s when they released their first record on the re-launched Capricorn. I have a clipping of it somewhere. Anyway, thanks again for posting that link.

Very nice article. I'm glad to see somebody else make the Wizard of Oz analogy.

Lots of interesting articles on the Colonel. Here's another one: http://ugly-things.com/col-bruce-hampton-1947-2017/

There are a lot of recordings of various quality of Hampton 70. This one sounds good to me: https://archive.org/details/hampton702017-05-01.km184