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Street Singers, Soul Shakers,
Rebels With A Cause
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Years in the making, the Macon music book - Street Singers, Soul Shakers, Rebels with a Cause is finally completed. By anyone's standard, it is worth the wait. Reaching back into the middle of the twentieth century, and moving painstakingly forward, writer Candice Dyer has uncovered the local roots of the blues, soul, rhythm and blues, and rock n' roll. At the same time, she has unearthed the histories of the men and women, many who never knew fame, but were the foundation of what we know as modern "Macon music." From the Reverend Pearly Brown, to James Brown and Otis Redding, through the tumultuous years of the Allman Brothers Band and the dozens of other well-known artists who came this way and left their mark, Dyer tells their stories. She does it with a deft ear not only for the music they made, but for the lives they lived and the legacy they left behind.
Hardback, 278 pages.
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