The history of Macon, Georgia, has an exceptional soundtrack, and SOMETHING IN THE WATER provides a lively narrative of the city’s musical past from its founding in 1823 to 1980. From its pioneer origins to the modern era, the city has produced waves of talent with amazing consistency, representing a wide range of musical genres including country, classical, jazz, blues, big band, soul, and rock. The story of music in Macon includes a vast, eclectic cast of characters, such as the city’s first music celebrity Sidney Lanier, entertainment entrepreneur Charles Douglass, jazz age divas Lucille Hegamin and Lula Whidby, big band singers Betty Barclay and the Pickens Sisters, rock and roll founding father Little Richard Penniman, rhythm and blues icons James Brown and Otis Redding, local country star Eugene Uncle Ned Stripling, Capricorn Records founders Phil Walden and Frank Fenter, and The Allman Brothers Band, one of the most popular groups of the rock era.
Author: Ben Wynne
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 10/01/2021
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.6lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.33w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9780881468021
Language: English
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