R&B legend Ironing Board Sam returns to Nashville

On a Friday night in 1965, in-the-know music fans across Middle Tennessee tuned in to WLAC-Channel 5. In tight focus on a multitude of cathode ray tubes was a skinny singer in dark shades with a pencil-thin mustache and glistening black curls, his face framed by the sparkling lapels of his jacket. Nodding out a one-two count, he launched into a powerhouse version of Titus Turner's "Sticks and Stones," a 1960 No.