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On the Sly
... segregated programming by playing them alongside Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles. He kept up the DJ gig for a long while even after he got the band together. His station connections soon led to...
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Jeanette Winterson’s Modern-Day "Frankenstein"; Herman Wouk (1915–2019)
... Donny Hathaway, Sam Cooke and others.” ...
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The Ersatz Life, Examined
... The humble peasants are really actors imitating what they think hard labor looks like, based on a mix of children’s books about John Henry, Sam Cooke lyrics, and online porn. The more unreal the...
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Bookforum talks with Carrie Brownstein
... memoirs. I’ve read a lot of music biographies, you know, books about Sam Cooke, about Bessie Smith, or Ma Rainey, or Nina Simone. But in terms of memoir, I read Jill Ker Conway’s Road from Coorain...
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The History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
... and Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, I took one look at Winehouse’s winged eyeliner and bloated beehive and swiftly pronounced her a fraud, a shallow pop star trying to steal the glamor of the singers...
