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a heartfelt history - one of the best books ever written on American popular music.' Newsweek 'Buy this book! In years to come it will seem like a bargain compared with all the wonderful records which you will have to buy after reading the vivid accounts of Sweet Soul Music.' Elvis Costello 'The best history of '60s soul music anyone has written or is likely to write, but it is much more than that.' Robert Palmer, New York Times Sweet Soul Music is a fascinating account of the decade that produced some of the finest music ever by a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest contemporary chronicler of American vernacular music.

and the MGs - and the colourful lives and times of such artists as Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, James

Records - the Memphis powerhouse label that produced a string of classics from the likes of Otis Redding and Booker T. Guralnick records the rise and fall of Stax In a narrative that captures all the tumult and liberating energy of a country in division and transition, Sweet Soul Music tells the engrossing story of the birth of modern rhythm and blues. Rhythm and blues and the Southern dream of freedom.

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