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From Where I Stand: The Black Experience In Country Music (reissue, 1998)

WARNER MUSIC NASHVILLE

8/10

ONE of the first stars of what became the Grand Ole Opry was a black harmonica virtuoso named DeFord Bailey, who could make the instrument sound like every oily, chugging

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