A Woman Left a Letter at ETTA JAMES'S Dressing Room Door. It Was the Letter Etta Never Sent.

After a concert in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, a woman named Clara knocked on Etta James's dressing room door and held out an envelope. She said: I think this belongs to you. Etta James looked at the envelope. She had written it two years earlier. She had never sent it. She had lost it during a move. She had told herself it was gone. It was not gone. Clara had found it. And now she was standing at the door holding it out, and the only question was whether Etta James was going to take it back. 0:00 — A dressing room door in Birmingham. An envelope. A face she didn't recognize. 1:30 — What 1963 Birmingham meant and what it cost to perform there 3:00 — The letter Etta James wrote and never sent 4:30 — How Clara came to have it 6:00 — The knock. The envelope. The silence. 7:30 — What was inside 9:00 — What Etta James did next 10:30 — What Clara said when she finally spoke 12:00 — The letters we lose on purpose #EttaJames #Birmingham1963 #SoulMusic #UntoldStory #EttaJamesUntold #MusicHistory #RnBLegend