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Synopsis : A thought-provoking exploration of the Black musicians who inspired Elvis Presley’s music, primarily through the lens of four overlooked Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, and Calvin Newborn
After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters in the summer of 2022, audiences and critics alike couldn’t help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presle...
2025-12-3000 min
RootedPreston Lauterbach is Giving the Gold and the Glory to the Artists who Created Rock and RollThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comThank you to everyone who tuned into my Bottom Reader Book Club conversation with Talamieka Brice and Preston Lauterbach earlier this month. Talamieka is an award-winning Mississippi artist and filmmaker who grew up on the blues—she was the perfect conversation partner for our talk with author Preston Lauterbach about his latest book, Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King. The book is a deep dive into the lives and legacies of the Black musicians (many of whom ha...
2025-09-1905 min
Our City Our VoiceBlack musicians and the Road to Rock & RollA downtown event Thursday night aimed to give audiences a better understanding of the role Indianapolis had in the musical road that led to rock ‘n’ roll.Noted author and music historian Preston Lauterbach spoke, focusing on the historical significance of Indiana Avenue in the development of American music.Lauterbach is well-known for his extensive research into Black culture and music, as highlighted in his 2011 book, “The Chitlin Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll.” The book revealed that the famed touring strategy that many musicians used began in Indianapolis, not the south as many presume...
2025-08-2204 min
Listen and Be Heard Networks3e21 Preston Lauterbach on the Making of ElvisOur featured guest is music historian, Preston Lauterbach, author of Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, interviewed by Tony Robles. Our featured poet is Latasha Diggs. New music by Jay Rodriguez Sierra, and new poetry by Martha Cinader, also featuring Joseph Jason Santiago Lacour and Mary Oishi.
2025-07-1758 min
RootedLauren Rhoades is Letting Go of Unrealistic Expectations of HomeThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comLast month I had the pleasure of joining the Bottom Reader Book Club for the first time as the author guest, rather than facilitator. It was thrilling to be on the other side of the proverbial table, knowing that I’d be in good hands with my perceptive friend and fellow 2025 debut author Catherine Simone Gray as facilitator and our cohort of gracious and insightful readers tuning in with their insights and questions. There’s a reason why multiple authors have said...
2025-07-1406 min
RootedSarah LaBrie Wrote Her Memoir "to Feel Like a River Breaking Off Into Tributaries"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comI’ve been sitting too long on this wonderfully rich conversation that our Bottom Reader Book Club had in May with memoirist and TV writer Sarah LaBrie about her debut memoir No One Gets to Fall Apart—I’m so glad to finally share the recording with paid subscribers. No One Gets to Fall Apart grapples with the toll that a mother’s mental illness takes on her daughter, its effects rippling outward to the family as a whole. The book...
2025-07-0703 min
RootedNeesha Powell-Ingabire's Personal History Intersects with the Collective History of Coastal GeorgiaThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rooted.substack.comIn April, we talked with author Neesha Powell-Ingabire—who was just nominated for Georgia Author of the Year!—about their debut memoir-in-essays Come By Here. Neesha was vulnerable, honest, and authentic. She talked about how in writing about her own family history, she uncovered important moments in Black history that helped her understand her coastal Georgia roots in a new way. We also spoke about power of tears and the importance of reviving and reclaiming Black agricultural knowledge and traditions. Neesha also...
2025-05-3102 min
The Jim Motavalli Interview PodcastBefore Elvis: Preston Lauterbach Talks About the King's African-American InfluencesPreston Lauterbach is the author of the book Before Elvis: The African-American Musicians Who Made the King, a book that examines the careers of Big Mama Thornton, Little Junior Parker (author of "Mystery Train"), Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup and both Calvin and Phineas Newborn, Jr. He talks to WPKN about how Elvis absorbed their music and stage moves, and sometimes even acknowledged their help.
2025-05-2625 min
Hopeton Hay PodcastsPreston Lauterbach Explores Black Musicians Who Made Elvis PresleyDiverse Voices Book Review host Hopeton Hay interviewed Preston Lauterbach, author of BEFORE ELVIS: The African American Musicians Who Made the King. In the interview Lauterbach highlighted the influence of African American musicians on Elvis Presley. He noted that Elvis's first hit, "That's All Right," was originally recorded by Arthur Crudup, and songs like "Hound Dog" and "Mystery Train" had African American origins. Lauterbach also explored the economic exploitation of Black artists and the cultural appropriation by white artists. He shared insights into the evolution of R&B and its impact on pop music in the 1970s, emphasizing the...
2025-05-0639 min
Beale Street Caravan#2925 - Bill AbelThis week on BSC we feature a performance by Bill Abel from the Mighty Mississippi Music Fest during Bridging the Blues. He's an accomplished potter and visual-artist, but most folks know him as an omni-present force on the Delta festival and jook joint circuit.
Also BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach continues his series the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2025-04-1458 min
WYPL Book TalkPreston Lauterbach - Before Elvis
Preston Lauterbach is a former Memphian who has written extensively about African-American music and history and has helped musicians tell their own stories, as well. Preston has appeared on Book Talk several times to discuss his books, The Chitlin Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll, Beale Street Dynasty, and Bluff City. Today, we’ll be discussing his latest title, Before Elvis:The African American Musicians Who Made The King, which is published by Da Capo Press.
2025-03-2246 minBeale Street Caravan#2917 - Cedric BurnsideGrammy nominated blues artist, Cedric Burnside, is back with us this week. Cedric is the grandson of the late, great R.L. Burnside, and he plays the Hill Country blues like nobody else. This performance was captured at The Memphis Blues Society’s Bonafide Blues Festival during Bridging the Blues.
Also on the program, BSC contributor, Preston Lauterbach, discusses the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2025-02-1758 min
wtju"Before Elvis" author Preston Lauterbach on The Soulful SituationPreston Lauterbach, author of "Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King" joined the Rum Cove on The Soulful Situation, February 10, 2025.
2025-02-111h 02
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Title: Before Elvis
Author: Preston Lauterbach
Narrator: Jaime Lincoln Smith
Format: mp3
Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
Release date: 01-07-25
Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 stars, 3 ratings
Genres: Entertainment & Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn't help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley’s music and style, reigniting a debate that has been circling for decades. In Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King, author Preston Lauterbach answers these questions definitively, based on new research and extensive, previously unpubl...
2025-01-077h 39
TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan PodcastTCBCast 345: Before Elvis: A Book Discussion (feat. Preston Lauterbach) After Gurdip & Justin discuss the latest FTDs: The Making of King Creole, The Last Tour Volume 2 and The Girl Happy Sessions, the guys answer a handful of listener emails, landing on one from fellow patron Robin, whose visit back to an early TCBCast episode that touched upon the subject of Elvis's Black influences, which conveniently leads us right into our main topic. For the main discussion, John Michael Heath of EAP Society taps in as we're joined by Preston Lauterbach, author of acclaimed books such as "The Chitlin' Circuit," "Beale Street Dynasty," "Bluff City: The Secret Life of...
2025-01-072h 24
KNKX Studio SessionsBlind Boys of Alabama bring their historic gospel to the KNKX studiosThe Blind Boys of Alabama have been a working singing group since 1939, previously under the name Happy Land Jubilee singers. They performed their Christmas show at Dimitriou's Jazz Alley in December. While in town, the four sharply dressed vocalists stopped by the KNKX Seattle studios with their band for a few songs and some conversation.Resplendent in matching red and black suit jackets with vests, the Blind Boys matched down to their shoes, which were covered in black crystals. The Black southern traditions of wearing your "Sunday best" and gospel singing are alive and well...
2025-01-0320 minBeale Street Caravan#2901 - Southern AvenueThis week we feature recording artist Southern Avenue in a performance at Loflin Yard as they celebrate the release of their self titled debut album. With their unique melting pot of blues, gospel, and soul influences, they epitomize what great Memphis music is all about.
Also BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach continues his series the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2024-10-2858 minBeale Street Caravan#2850 - Bobby RushThis week on BSC we go back in the archives with Grammy winner and blues legend Bobby Rush in a performance at the 2017 grand reopening of the legendary Club Paradise in Memphis, TN. We also continue our series with BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach discussing the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2024-10-0758 min
The Blues Therapy Show & Dance INTERVIEW ARCHIVE SERIES w/ Stagga' Lee on WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta, GAPreston Lauterbach, Author of "Chitlin Circuit and The Road To Rock N' Roll" w/ Stagga' Lee on WRFG Atlanta !!!INTERVIEW ARCHIVE SERIES of "The Blues Therapy Show & Dance" on WRFG 89.3 FM Atlanta, GA
2023-06-3036 min
Blues in the BasementA History of The Chitlin' Circuit w/Preston LauterbachPreston Lauterbach, music journalist and author of Beale Street Dynasty, is also the author of The Chitlin Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n" Roll, where he explores the origins of rock-and-roll in Black culture, specifically Black/Delta blues culture. Cooki B and Tonya talk to him about his book, the artists and songs that served as a springboard for rock music and of course Robert Johnson. Often classified as second tier, the Chitlin Circuit birthed and nurtured some of our country's most renowned musicians and singers whether directly or indirectly!
2023-02-2347 min
Endeavours Radio256 - Preston LauterbachPreston Lauterbach is a music journalist, author and former visiting scholar at Rhodes College, known for his books Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, and The Chitlin Circuit, which was a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year. He is the co-author of Brother Robert: Growing Up With Robert Johnson, which is co-written by Annye C. Anderson, step-sister to the legendary blues musician. That book is out now. Subscribe to Endeavours on Spotify, Google, Apple, or wherever podcasts are sold!IG: @EndeavoursRadioWeb: www.endeavoursmedia.com
2020-08-071h 03
Endeavours Radio256 - Preston LauterbachPreston Lauterbach is a music journalist, author and former visiting scholar at Rhodes College, known for his books Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, and The Chitlin Circuit, which was a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year. He is the co-author of Brother Robert: Growing Up With Robert Johnson, which is co-written by Annye C. Anderson, step-sister to the legendary blues musician. That book is out now.
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2020-08-071h 02
The Imbalanced History of Rock and RollBrother Robert: Truth Behind A Blues LegendThis episode could be a ground breaker! The new book, "Brother Robert: Growing Up With Robert Johnson" is the family's story about the Blues legend, written by his half-sister, Annye C. Anderson and author Preston Lauterbach. It's a side of his story that we have never heard: his family, his travels, his real path to guitar god status, all revealed! The basis for this episode is an interview with Preston, who shares our reverence for the one and only Mr. J.!Thanks to our sponsors, Crooked Eye Brewery AND One CBD for their support...
2020-07-0653 minThe Imbalanced History of Rock and RollRobert Johnson Revisited Part 2The re-release of our double episode about Robert Johnson And The Progenitors Of The Blues, which originally debuted in November 2019, is sparked by our interview with Preston Lauterbach, which will post on 7/6/20. He and Robert Johnson's half-sister, Annye C. Anderson have written the family's story about Mr. J., "Brother Robert: Growing Up With Robert Johnson."Here's Part 2, our addendum, if you will! That leads up to the release of Brother Robert: Truth Behind A Blues Legend, on 7/6. That's a lot of Robert Johnson, but it's groundbreaking, legend shifting, devil-legend dispelling stuff!This show is part...
2020-07-0236 minThe Imbalanced History of Rock and RollRobert Johnson Revisited Part 1The re-release of our double episode about Robert Johnson And The Progenitors Of The Blues, which originally debuted in November 2019, is sparked by our interview with Preston Lauterbach, which will post on 7/6/20. He and Robert Johnson's half-sister, Annye C. Anderson have written the family's story about Mr. J., "Brother Robert: Growing Up With Robert Johnson."Part One is re-released now, and look for Part 2, our addendum, if you will, on Thursday 7/2/20. That leads up to the release of Brother Robert: Truth Behind A Blues Legend on 7/6. That's a lot of Robert Johnson, but it's groundbreaking, legend shifting...
2020-06-291h 09
FUNKY POLITICSIt Really Is Just Us w/Preston Lauterbach | The Funky Politics | KUDZUKIAN On this episode of the Funky Politics, DC is joined by Preston Lauterbach, author of Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis, The Chittlin Circuit: And the Road to Rock and Roll and Bluff City: the Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers. They talk about race in America during these turbulent times. Make sure you tune into this Funky episode and the latest episodes of the Funky Politics on the Kudzukian App.
2020-06-2638 min
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Title: Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
Author: Annye C. Anderson
Narrator: Janina Edwards
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Release date: June 9, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Arts & Entertainment
Publisher's Summary:
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlife Though Robert Johnson was only twenty-seven years young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, his enduring recordings have solidified his status as a progenitor of the Delta blues...
2020-06-094h 30
Get Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentBrother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson by Annye C. AndersonPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405472 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson Author: Annye C. Anderson Narrator: Janina Edwards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 30 minutes Release date: June 9, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Arts & Entertainment Publisher's Summary: An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlife Though Robert Johnson was only twenty-seven years young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, his enduring recordings have solidified his status as a progenitor of the Delta...
2020-06-0903 minGet Best Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Arts & EntertainmentBrother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson by Annye C. AndersonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405472to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
Author: Annye C. Anderson
Narrator: Janina Edwards
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 4 hours 30 minutes
Release date: June 9, 2020
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Arts & Entertainment
Publisher's Summary:
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson's stepsister, including new details about his family, music, influences, tragic death, and musical afterlife Though Robert Johnson was only twenty-seven years young and relatively unknown at the time of his tragic death in 1938, his enduring recordings have solidified his status as a progenitor of the Delta blues...
2020-06-094h 30
FUNKY POLITICSCalling the Bluff w/Preston Lauterbach | The Funky Politics | KUDZUKIANOn this episode of Funky Politics we hear from author Preston Lauterbach on his new book, Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers. We discuss Ernest Withers' ties to Memphis and his historical photos. We also get into the uncomfortable truths of Withers' life as an FBI informant and his connection to the Civil Rights Movement. That and so much more is explored on Calling the Bluff, an episode you don't want to miss.
2019-05-2253 min
Lumpen Radio: Week In ReviewLumpen Week in Review • 2-22-19This week we discussed how the IRS is punishing the poor, learned about a civil rights-era photographer who was an informant for the FBI and pondered turning trash into art. All this plus brand new segments from Size Matters, Are We
Cool Yet? and the Trump Diaries. It’s all only on the Lumpen Week in Review for February 22, 2019. This week, we spoke to Garry Noland, Preston Lauterbach, Jesse Eisinger, Kyle Syzmankowski, Jess Tylkowski, The Lumpen Players, df and Rothschild
Sponsors.
2019-02-2253 min
Press Play On Into A Immersive Full Audiobook During Your Workout.Bluff City by Preston LauterbachPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/164621to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Bluff City
Author: Preston Lauterbach
Narrator: Sean Patrick Hopkins
Format: mp3
Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
Release date: 02-05-19
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 13 ratings
Genres: Freedom & Security
Publisher's Summary:
Who was Ernest Withers? Most Americans may not know the name, but they do know his photographs. Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and ’60s: Martin Luther King, Jr., riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till’s uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at one of his nephew’s killers; scores...
2019-02-056h 35
FUNKY POLITICSFUNKY POLITICS PODCAST | WHAT DO WE DO NOW??? w/ Preston Lauterbach | KUDZUKIANAuthor of Beale Street Dynasty and Chitlin Circuit, Preston Lauterbach, hangs out with the Funky Politics Crew. They reflect on his visit to Memphis and the "Funky Politics Live at Club Paradise", when Preston was the featured guest. At the time of the visit, the City of Memphis' had yet to remove its Confederate Statues from its public parks and that public debate, that colored a lot the conversation during the event. Not only do they discuss the removal of the statues, but they reflect on Charlottesville, President "45", Race and a few other hot topics.
2018-03-0209 minBeale Street Caravan#2216 - Club Paradise Grand Reopening featuring Bobby RushThis week on BSC we go back in the archives with Grammy winner and blues legend Bobby Rush in a performance at the 2017 grand reopening of the legendary Club Paradise in Memphis, TN. We also continue our series with BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach discussing the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll. #ilistentomemphis
2018-01-2258 minBeale Street Caravan#2148 - Southern AvenueThis week we feature Stax Records recording artist Southern Avenue in a performance at Loflin Yard as they celebrate the release of their self titled debut album. With their unique melting pot of blues, gospel, and soul influences, they epitomize what great Memphis music is all about.
Also BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach continues his series the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2017-09-1158 min
FUNKY POLITICSFunky Politics Radio | June 03, 2017 | 60 min - Throwback: Preston Lauterbach[ Click on the Image to Listen ] Funky Politics Radio | June 03, 2017 | 60 min Great Politics Great Music Great Fun…Did We Mention Great Politics!!! Enjoy…
2017-07-031h 48
FUNKY POLITICSMemphis Still Burning? | Beale Street Dynasty-Preston Lauterbach | 55 min [ Click on the Image to Listen ] Funky Politics Radio | June 3, 2017 Preston Lauterbach, Author, Beale Street Dynasty and The Chitlin’ Circuit: And the Road to Rock and Roll hangs out with the Funky Politics Crew. Great Politics Great Music Great Fun…Did We Mention Great Politics!!! Enjoy…
2017-06-0854 minBeale Street Caravan#2124 - Scott Sharrard with The Bo-KeysThis week on BSC we feature Scott Sharrard performing with Memphis' own Bo-Keys in Studio A at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Hi Records legend Don Bryant joins in for a couple of songs.
Also BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach continues his series the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2017-03-2758 minBeale Street Caravan#2122 - Bill AbelThis week on BSC we feature a performance by Bill Abel from the Mighty Mississippi Music Fest during Bridging the Blues. He's an accomplished potter and visual-artist, but most folks know him as an omni-present force on the Delta festival and jook joint circuit.
Also BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach continues his series the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2017-03-1358 minBeale Street Caravan#2119 - Watermelon Slim and Terry “Harmonica” BeanThis week’s episode showcases two bluesmen whose music can be heard at blues festivals around the world, in documentary films, or performing at juke joints right in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. Both play harmonica and guitar, and both were recorded during Bridging The Blues performances last fall. Listen as Watermelon Slim takes the stage at the Bonafide Blues Festival and Terry “Harmonica” Bean plays the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival.
BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach continues his series the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2017-02-2058 minBeale Street Caravan#2118 - Jericho Road ShowThis week on BSC we feature a performance by Jericho Road Show from the Mighty Mississippi Music Fest during Bridging the Blues. The group is a collaboration between well-seasoned Americana Roots & Blues musicians Rambling Steve Gardner, Libby Rae Watson, Wes Lee and Bill Steber. All successful artists in their own right, together they create a powerhouse.
BSC contributor Preston Lauterbach continues his series the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2017-02-1358 minBeale Street Caravan#2114 - Super ChikanThis week we catch up with the one and only James "Super Chikan" Johnson and his raw, electrified, Mississippi juke joint sound. This performance was captured at The Memphis Blues Society’s Bona Fide Blues Festival during Bridging the Blues.
Also on the program, BSC contributor, Preston Lauterbach, discusses the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2017-01-1658 minBeale Street Caravan#2113 - Cedric BurnsideGrammy nominated blues artist, Cedric Burnside, is back with us this week. Cedric is the grandson of the late, great R.L. Burnside, and he plays the Hill Country blues like nobody else. If your butt doesn’t shake during this week’s show, there might be something wrong with you. This performance was captured at The Memphis Blues Society’s Bonafide Blues Festival during Bridging the Blues.
Also on the program, BSC contributor, Preston Lauterbach, discusses the Chitlin’ Circuit and The Road to Rock n Roll.
2017-01-0958 min
Ep. 15: The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock n’ Roll: Preston Lauterbach on Rock’s Forgotten PioneersWhen we think about the roots of rock n’ roll, we generally tend to think about people like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Buddy Holly. For reasons owing to politics, race, and the various prejudices of historians and music journalists, many of the earliest African-American blues, jazz, and r n’ b pioneers, such as Louis […]
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2016-06-3000 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowEp. 77: Preston Lauterbach on Memphis, Race and Beale StreetWriter and cultural historian Preston Lauterbach is the guest on this week's installment of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Preston is the author of the great new book Beale Street Dynasty which examines the intersecting lives, fascinating personalities, the power of the color line, and self-made men in the post-Civil War South. In all, Beale Street Dynasty is an amazing work that reveals a great deal about sex, song, and politics in Memphis, Tennessee, and America, more broadly. Preston does some great sharing and teaching in this week's episode. Chauncey and Preston talk about Elvis Presley and race...
2016-02-181h 26
MyNDTALK with Dr. Pamela BrewerMyNDTALK - Beale Street & Robert Church : Preston LauterbachBeale Street & Robert Church : Preston LauterbachIn 1865, Robert Church, an ex-slave, applied for a license to open a Memphis pool hall. Turned down by the county clerk, he built his establishment anyway. When the city took him to trial, Church's lawyer successfully invoked, perhaps for the first time, Congress's brand-new Civil Rights Act. That move helped trigger the 1866 riot. To this day, Robert Church's life remains a fascinating look into an earlier time on Beale Street.
2016-02-011h 00
New Books in MusicPreston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)Following the Civil War, Memphis emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment, after a period of turmoil. Preston Lauterbach joins host Jonathan Judaken for an in-depth discussion in advance of the launch of Lauterbach’s latest book, Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (Norton, 2015).
Robert Church, Sr., who would become “the South’s first black millionaire,” was a slave owned by his white father. Having survived a deadly race riot in 1866, Church constructed an empire of vice in the booming river town of post-Civil War Memphis. He made a f...
2015-08-0436 min
New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex WorkPreston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)Following the Civil War, Memphis emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment, after a period of turmoil. Preston Lauterbach joins host Jonathan Judaken for an in-depth discussion in advance of the launch of Lauterbach’s latest book, Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (Norton, 2015).Robert Church, Sr., who would become “the South’s first black millionaire,” was a slave owned by his white father. Having survived a deadly race riot in 1866, Church constructed an empire of vice in the booming river town of post-Civil War Memphis. He made a f...
2015-08-0434 min
New England Public Radio PodcastPreston Lauterbach on Memphis and B.B. King - Tom Reney for Jazz à la ModeTom Reney spoke this week with Preston Lauterbach, who's the author of The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock'n'Roll. The critically-acclaimed book was published by Norton in 2011. The Chitlin' Circuit combines original reporting and historical research in providing a richly detailed overview of the period when African American musicians played a circuit of black-owned or operated venues than fanned out from the south to all corners of the nation. Memphis, Tennessee was a center of the circuit, and it's there where B.B. King came to prominence in the early fifties.
2015-05-2041 min
Gloria Minott Presents...Gloria Minott Presents...Preston Lauterbach_Episode 155I talked to Preston Lauterbach about his book "Beale Street Dynasty".
Between Reconstruction and Prohibition, Beale Street thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, greed and race hatred--a strip with unique soul that inspired folk legends, scandalized Faulkner, and reshaped American politics. Lauterbach gives readers a street-level view of these historic events, telling the simultaneous stories of popular music, civil rights, and a community's commitment to and pride in their conflict-ridden city. Brilliantly researched and swiftly plotted, Beale Street Dynasty evokes a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politicians on the fabled Memphis strip.
Preston Lauterbach...
2015-05-0613 min
Download the Top 100 Audiobooks in History, AmericanBeale Street Dynasty Audiobook by Preston LauterbachPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Beale Street Dynasty
Subtitle: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
Author: Preston Lauterbach
Narrator: Mirron Willis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-30-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
The vivid history of Beale Street - a lost world of swaggering musicians, glamorous madams, and ruthless politicians - and the battle for the soul of Memphis.
Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron...
2015-03-3110h 23
Embark On The Most Spellbinding Full Audiobook Today!Beale Street Dynasty by Preston LauterbachPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/270254to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Beale Street Dynasty
Author: Preston Lauterbach
Narrator: Mirron Willis
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
Release date: 03-30-15
Ratings: 4.4 out of 5 stars, 39 ratings
Genres: African American Studies
Publisher's Summary:
2015-03-3010h 20New Books in MusicPreston Lauterbach, “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll” (W. W. Norton, 2011)Where does rock ‘n’ roll begin?
In The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll (W. W. Norton, 2011), Preston Lauterbach makes a strong case for its beginnings in the backwoods and small-town juke joints, fed by big-city racketeering, of the black American South. It begins, possibly, on Indianapolis’s Indiana Avenue where Denver Fergusun ran numbers, paid-off cops, and operated the Sunset Terrace. It begins, maybe, in Houston where Don Robey was the proprietor of the Bronze Peacock, oversaw a network of bars and taverns throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, and was a founder of the seminal...
2013-01-1559 min