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Architects Lewis + Whitlock
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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 […]
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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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