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April 4-6, 2025
Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin’ Circuit (2011) as well as two secret histories of Black culture, Beale Street Dynasty (2015) and Bluff City (2019). Preston has co-authored three memoirs with significant figures in Black music, including Brother Robert (2020) with the stepsister of bluesman Robert Johnson, Timekeeper (2021) with […]
Tommy Prine’s debut album “This Far South,” out June 23, 2023, was not only a long awaited introduction but a testimony to Prine’s 20’s and the loss, love, and growth that has defined them. Co-produced by close friend and kindred musical spirit, Ruston Kelly, and beloved Nashville engineer and producer, Gena Johnson, the album is […]
Born in 1946 in eastern North Carolina as one of seven children, Johnny Ray Daniels sang with his brothers and learned to play guitar from watching his dad. The region was known to have the highest concentration of KKK anywhere in the South. He and some friends started a rock & roll band at the […]
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Hank is a writer, editor and musician living in Brooklyn, New York. For the past 20 years, he has covered jazz, metal and various other styles for publications including Rolling Stone (where he’s currently on staff as a senior editor), The New York Times, Pitchfork, AllMusic.com and Time Out New York. In 2011, he published […]
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