well, featuring Derek Trucks. This hardback book would make an excellent
gift for any fan of Les Brers, or just plain ol’ fans of classic rock. Over 450 color and black and white images. The great thing about the book is that if you like a particular photo, you can order a high- quality print straight from Sidney’s website, suit- able for archival framing! I should know. I am now the proud owner of several of the images, including an awesome backstage picture of Gregg Allman with Wet Willie front man Jimmy Hall. Just beau- tiful.
To order the book, visit
www.allmanbroth-
ersbookbysidneysmith.com To view and order photographic prints, visit
www.rockstarphotos.net And please, tell him you read about it in
KUDZOO magazine! -Michael Buffalo Smith
The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes By William Rawlings (Mercer University Press)
I love a story that keeps
you guessing, and turning pages. This was the case with The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes, a crime mystery set in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. William Rawlings is a master-
ful story teller, and his descriptions of the charac- ters as well as this historic town make the reader feel as if he is there watching it all unfold. In the story, John Wesley O'Toole, a dis-
barred former attorney, is trying to make a new start in life as an art dealer following his release from prison. He is struggling financially when he is approached by a prominent wealthy businessman and offered a significant sum to help recover a painting that's been stolen by the man's estranged granddaughter, Lucy. After Lucy is found dead, O’- Toole is arrested and jailed as the prime suspect in her murder, and it seems that there’s no one he can trust to help him prove his innocence. There’s no one he can trust, period. This is a book you won’t be able to put down.
My advice is that you block out a few hours before diving in. If you’re like me, you just won’t be able to stop reading and trying to answer that immortal
question, “Who dunnit?” Highly recommended. -Michael Buffalo Smith
Portrait of an American Businessman by Carl Ware (Mercer University Press) At the Mercer University Press
Author’s Luncheon in Decem- ber, I had the good fortune of sharing a signing table with the remarkable Carl Ware, an amazing man who has chroni- cled his inspirational life in the book Portrait of an American
Businessman. A true-life success story at its finest, Ware
was born to a family of Georgia sharecroppers back in 1943, and faced hardship head on, growing up in a largely racist, segregated south. Carl worked his way through college, inspired along the way by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and would become a major business leader, and one of the greatest and philanthropists of his generation. Ware was named vice president of Special Markets for Coca-Cola USA in 1979. As the highest-ranking African Ameri- can executive at the Coca-Cola Company, Ware met with Nelson Mandela after his release from prison in 1990. During this time, Ware proved instrumen- tal in the fall of South Africa's brutal system of apartheid. Mandella himself said, “When the history of
our struggle is properly reviewed … only then will the world be privy to fully understand your cat- alytic role in that struggle. We know of countless contributions made to innumerable individuals and organizations in our country through your di- rect intervention…” From there, Ware’s story just gets better and
better, serving as a source of inspiration for anyone, interested in business or not, African American or not. It doesn’t matter. Anyone who grew up in this fine country called the United States of America will derive inspiration and a true blessing from reading Carl’s book. I know I did. It is a true American rags- to-riches success story, written by a gentleman whose very presence in the room, not unlike Man- della’s, makes one feel a certain inner peace.
-Michael Buffalo Smith
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