Curator's Corner

Okay, here we go … I’ll name a piano style and you name a pianist. Ready?

Honky Tonk > Antoine “Fats” Domino, Bill Doggett
Blues > Memphis Slim, Dr. John, Ray Charles
Boogie Woogie > Jerry Lee Lewis or Jelly Roll Morton or Little Richard Penniman
Classical > perhaps Van Cluburn or Sergei Rachmaninoff or Eduardo DelGado
Rock > Keith Emerson, Ian Stewart or John Evan
Pop > maybe Liberace or John Tesh or Jon Schmidt.

HEAVYFOOT >>> There is only one, the immortal, the spectacular, the whit of the Wheatland, the gab from Groff’s, the only – LENNY LANE.

Lenny Lane was a piano man who I believe I first met at Fanny Lermer’s Bar on Cabbage Hill. Later he was a mainstay at Al Trimble’s Wheatland Inn before returning to the hill at Groff’s Café. Tonight’s artifact is a sign – autographed in 1979 by the immortal maestro himself – which Al gave me.



It was in the summer of 1976 when Lenny Lane launched his campaign to be President of the United States. We will have more on Lenny in a few posts.