Drive-By Truckers formed in Athens, Georgia 20 years ago, and the band's been exploring the music and culture of the American South ever since. Their new album continues that tradition, with a piercing look at issues of race and police brutality.
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Earthy, energetic, apocalyptic and yet somehow, improbably, still optimistic, Michael Franti speaks clear and present hip-hop.
Even in the era of the Beatles and Motown's roster of stars, the brilliant James Brown established a place that was his alone. His was not about magic, it was about power that could not be denied by anyone brought within its field of influence. What the book's author also finds is a wary solitariness that paradoxically found its fullest expression in Brown's ability to give himself so completely in performance to suggest a generosity approaching self-immolation.
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