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Flowers relates his stories the prehistoric African storytelling way, through song, dance and ancient African instruments with some blues music and hoodoo (African American folk magic) thrown in. “I am not a blues artist as many people seem to think. I write paranormal prose set to blues,” explains Flowers, a Memphis native who served in the Vietnam war and is also the co-founder of New Renaissance Writer’s Guild.
Flowers, who believes that magic and art are a part of the same process, recreates slavery through singing simple narrative ballads. As he continues in his lyrical and boisterous style, Flowers also gives us a piece from his novel Mojo Rising, giving a feel of the traditional blues verse as was sung long ago and became famous as jazz and rock and roll in the 1960s and 70s. “I am at heart just your basic tribal witch doctor, a representative trying to take care of the tribal soul through my anointed skills,” he says. Magic for the soul.
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