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Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
Paperback
Blues & SoulPop/RockMusic Reference
Publisher Price: $23.99
ISBN13: 9780316332736
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: Jul 1 1999
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that inspired a generation and forever changed the sound of American music.
One of the ten books [I] couldn't live without.--Ta-Nehisi Coates
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