Enjoying the Cardinal

KERSTIN led the way along a new route for our morning walk.
We twisted and turned up hills and down side streets, looking out from bluffs affording views of a pink-and-orange sunrise.
Listening to REX LAWSON seemed like a perfect fit.
Known as "Cardinal Rex," Lawson was one of the legendary musical performers of NIGERIA.
A vocalist and trumpeter, he led the Mayors Dance Band throughout the 1960s.
Lawson was an Ijaw, the group of people from Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states within the Niger Delta, but his music united all Nigerians, especially on the dance floor.
I've got a Lawson compilation that includes "Jolly Papa" and "Love Adure," probably his most popular songs.
Lawson probably would have reigned Africa's musical landscape for years, but he died in a 1971 a car accident on his way to play a show in Warri, Nigeria.
I loved hearing his propulsive, catchy music this morning, as the chilled air woke me.