Ole’ Miss Percussion Professor Ricky Burkhead talks about getting the Ole Miss job (02:20), going to school with Jerry Rice and the world of HBCU Classics (17:30), growing up in Greenwood (MS) and the music of the 1970s (20:30), playing in combos with local band directors (28:40), going to Mississippi Valley State University for undergrad (38:30), attending his first PASIC in NYC in the late 1970s (43:40), undergrad recitals (49:50), going to Eastern Illinois for his master’s (57:25), working at MVSU as his first job (01:09:50), racial issues in higher education and changes in Ole’ Miss’s history (01:17:00), the Mississippi-Mississippi State rivalry (01:26:30), and Random-Ass Questions (01:30:00).
Finishing with a tribute to the music of David Maslanka and Glen Campbell (01:41:00).
Links:
Ricky Burkhead's Ole Miss page
"Jamaica Farewell" - Harry Belafonte
"Yellow Bird" - Steel Band traditional
Military plane crash in MS in July 2017
"I Wish" and "Isn't She Lovely" - Stevie Wonder
"Can't Hide Love" - Earth, Wind and Fire
"Money Money Money" and "Give the People What The Want" - The O'Jays
"Village Ghetto Land" - Stevie Wonder
"Three Camps" - Gardiner Strube
14 Modern Snare Solos - John Pratt
Modern School for Snare Drum - Morris Goldenberg
Modern Method for Timpani - Saul Goodman
"B Major Etude" - Clair Musser
"C Major Etude" - Clair Musser
"Sonata For Timpani" - John H. Beck
"Monograph IV" - Richard Gipson
"Two Mexican Dances" - Gordon Stout
"Children's Songs" - Chick Corea
"Art of Bop Drumming" - John Riley
"Dancing Machine" and "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)" - The Jacksons
"Rock With You", "Billie Jean", "Working Day and Night" - Michael Jackson
"Back in Black" - AC/DC
"I Can't Go For That" - Hall and Oates
Raves:
"My Lady White" - David Maslanka
"Symphony No. 4" - David Maslanka