THE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford, and Jack White.
THE AMERICAN EPIC TEAM
Nicholas Bergh, Adam Block, Sherwin Dunner, Duke Erikson, Patrick Ferris, Dan Gitlin, Peter Henderson, Bill Holderman, Larry Jenkins, Michael Kieffer, Jack McLean, Ian Montone, Nas, Jeff Rosen, John Tefteller, Elijah Wald, and Anthony Wall.
OUR CONSULTANTS AND ARCHIVISTS
Paul Alexander, Dave Anderson, Gary Atkinson, Scott Barretta, Bruce Bastin, Bill Pete Bergeron, Bill Brewington, Michael Brooks, Sheila Bumgarner, Joe Bussard, Garth Cartwright, John Cohen, Larry Cohn, Kathy Conkwright, Joy Conley, Les Cook, Harry Coster, John Eck, Lars Edegran, Kevin S. Fontenot, Mia Greendove, Todd Harvey, Len Horowitz, Jaime Jaramillo, Brad Kay, Don Kent, Miles Krueger, Steve Lasker, Joe Lauro, Rick Lepore, Mary Makley, Murray Lerner, Frank Mare, Barry Mazor, Robert “Mack” McCormick, Gilda Miros, Roger Misiewicz, Richard Nevins, Paul Oliver, Bengt Olsson, Clive Osborn, Frances Robb, Kinney Rorrer, Tony Russell, Ann Savoy, Stewart Schlosberg, Mike Seeger, Steve Sheldon, Russell Shor, Dick Spottswood, Karl Steig, Chris Strachwitz, Phyllis and Ken Swerilas, Paul Swinton, Tom Tierney, Professor Steve Tracy, John Troutman, Paul Vernon, Gayle Dean Wardlow, John R. Wheat, Daniel Wheeler, Pete Whelan, Charles K. Wolfe, Marshall Wyatt, and Kenneth Zoll.
OUR FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS
Diane Aldred, Gavin Aldred, Erika Alfredson, Doug Allsopp, Chris Ancliff, Jason Anderson, Shari Annes, Martha Arenas, Gil Aronow, Jeff Bakken, Dave Ball, Tony Barrell, Mark Bashore, Richard Becker, John and Serena Benedict, Steve Berkowitz, Joe Berlinger, Mark and Carolyn Blackburn, Ben Blackwell, Anne and Jerome Boisard, Joe Boyd, John Boyd, Marea Boylan, Beth Brann, Gretchen Brennison, Paul Brown, Stuart Brown, Maik Brüggemeyer, Lt. Col. Gloria Bullock, Susan Buser, Mike Carey, Terry Carlson, Maggi Caridi, Robert Christgau, E.J. Cody, Chip Commins, Adrienne Connors, Tom Cording, William D. Coughlin, Vicki Cruz, Jean Cummins, Seth Daggett, Ben Dalby, Tom Davy, Roxy Erikson, Mark Ettinger, Ronald and Vera Farrants, Gary Ferris, Alessandra Fremura, David Gahr, Geoff Gans, Garbage, Camilla Gibbs, Elizabeth Giles, Jenn and Asher Gitlin, Roger Glenn, Peter Golub, Gary Gonzales, Lonnie Goodwin, Ray Goto, Davis Guggenheim, Rachel Gutek, Gordon and Kathy Hamilton, John Harrington, Boyd Harvey, Alex and Lesley Hill, Gil Hopkins, Joanna Hughes, Prince Albert Hunt, Jim Hunt, Gail and Miller Ingram, John Jackson, David Jaymes, Marisa Jeffries, Jennifer and Peter Jesperson, Bob Johnson, Matthew Kelly, Heather Kenmure, Jennifer Kirell, Callie Khouri, Gayle and Scott Lane, Marion Koltai-Levine, George Kupczak, Taylor Lang, Guy Lavallée, Ken Levine, Richard Liebowitz, Barbara Ligeti, Pat MacMahon, Lalo Madina, Lana Mann, Carol Lusk, Frances McCain, Adrian McCusker, Gordon McGourty, Austin McLean, Tom Mullen, Nicholas Naro, Neil O’Brien, Alex Ogilvie, Dan Owen, Jim Parham, Elizabeth and Ralph Peer II, Paul Pieper, John Polito, Verna Polutan, Lisa Remington, David Rezak, Rod Randolph Richardson, Jarom Rowland, Andrew Ross, Melissa Ruella, Dr. John W. Rumble, Rob Santos, Jeffrey Schulberg, Jerry, Helen, Chris and Aileen Scully, Gudrun Shea, Timothy Shepard, Erin Simms, Benjamin Singleton, Eli Smith, Sarah Spruill, Bill and Jane Stetson, Richard Story, Nina Streich, Ben Swank, Bill Tapia, Joel Tefteller, Susie Tefteller, Lisa Verrico, Linh Vuong, Andrew Walker, Chris Walter, David Weiswasser, Mark Williams, Linda Wolfe, Geoff Wonfor, Doug Wong, Arash Zandi, and Nancy Zoll.
THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE HELPED US
Apollo Masters, AT&T, Audio Mechanics, BBC Arena, CEDAR Audio Ltd., Colorlab, City National Bank, Columbia Records, DGA, Edit Source, EMI Archive Trust, the George H. Buck Jr. Jazz Foundation, the Grace Richardson Fund, Hopi Cultural Preservation Office, iZotope, Lamm Industries, Legacy Recordings, LD Communications, the Library of Congress, MAC Cosmetics, MAC Presents, the Maritime Hotel, Media Insurance Brokers Ltd., the Memphis Police Department, Mercedes-Benz, Metropolis, the Mississippi John Hurt Foundation, Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina, Network Typing, the New York Public Library, OCL Studios, Park City Live, Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, Peermusic, [PIAS], Platinum Rye, Preferred Travel, ProQuest, Rainbo Records, Red Light Management, Sonic Studio, Sony Music, Squarespace, Sundance Institute, Sundance Film Festival, Syracuse University Bandier Program, Third Man Records, 2 Brydges Place, Verde Valley Archaeology Center, Wildwood Enterprises, and WGAW.
THE MANAGERS AND EXECUTIVES
Johnny Barbis, Colin Campbell, Stacey Fass, Michael Franks, Andrew Friedman, Gerry A. Fojo, John Grady, Rayburn W. Green, Wendy Hopkins, Marc Joachin, George Khangis, Kevin Kiley, Ken Levitan, Bonnie Levetin, Emily Lichter, Jackie Lopez, Michael Meisel, Kevin Morris, Henri Musselwhite, Dolphus Ramseur, Elliot Roberts, Mark Rothbaum, Anthony Saleh, Colin Smith, Damien Smith, John Smith, Christine Stauder, Randi Tolbert, Barry Tyerman, and Julian Wright.
THE FILM CONTRIBUTORS
Alyssabeth Archambault, John Ballard, Ted Bradley, Gary Breaux, Della Breaux Hook, Jeanie Broussard Breaux, Jimmy Breaux, Pat Breaux, Michael Brooks, Bob Burch, Kenny and Tracy Cannon, Larry Carver, John Carter Cash, Pastor Donnie Chapman, Annie Cook, Francis Duke, Honeyboy Edwards, Wade Falcon, Timothy Ferris, Antoine Carroll Fruge, Evans Fuller, Effie Gaspard, Ernest Gillespie, Allen Hebert, Gwendolyn Hendon, Ann Hernandez-McKinney, Fernando Hernandez, Roger Hernandez, Mary Francis Hurt, Homesick James, Eugene Justice, Dale Jett, Jacqueline Knaff, Leigh Kuwanwisiwma, Bill Lester, Robert Lockwood Jr., Auntie Ka’iwa Meyer, Flo Millard, Jerry Mouton, Charlie Musselwhite, Hubert Nelson Jr., August Odom, Cyril Pahinui, Craig Raguse, Fern Salyer, Greg Sardhina, E.J. Satala, Anne Savoy, Ernestine Smith, Ken and Phyllis Swerilas, Bill Williamson and family, and Ken Zoll.
THE AMERICAN EPIC SESSIONS MUSICIANS
Alabama Shakes, The Americans, Peter Asher, the Avett Brothers, Carla Azar, Beck, Jay Bellerose, Edie Brickell, Chloe Feoranzo, Dominic Davis, Alison Elble, Frank Fairfield, Dean Fertita, Dom Flemons, Ana Gabriel, Rhiannon Giddens, Merle Haggard, Bobby Ingano, Hubby Jenkins, Elton John, Daru Jones, Fats Kaplin, Auntie Geri Kuhia, Pokey Lafarge, Lake Street Dive, Bettye Lavette, Los Lobos, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Taj Mahal, Roger Manning, Steve Martin, Fred Martin and the Levite Camp, Ashley Monroe, Nas, Willie Nelson, J. Micah Nelson, Alfredo Ortiz, Charlie Kaleo Oyama, Van Dyke Parks, Jerron Paxton, Christine Pizzuti, Lillie Mae Rische, Omar Rodriguez, Roberto Roffiel, Raphael Saadiq, Joshua Smith, Fred Sokolow, Stephen Stills, Bernie Taupin, Jack White, and Gabe Witcher.
OUR PROFESSIONAL ADVISERS
Ken Kraus at Loeb & Loeb LLP, Victoria Gaskill at Olswang LLP, Chris Perez at Donaldson + Callif, Michael Perlstein and Michael Martins at Fischbach, Perlstein, Lieberman & Almond, Alexis Grower at Magrath LLP, LeeAnn Hard and Steve MacNicoll at H2 Management, Andrea Richards and Tad Bieniek at Accounts Navigator, and Tim Sharman at MGR.
OUR PUBLISHERS, AGENTS, AND DESIGNERS
Matthew Benjamin at Simon & Schuster, Thomas Flannery and David Vigliano at AGI-Vigliano Literary LLC, Lorie Pagnozzi, Nat Strimpopulos at Third Man, and Brian Loucks at CAA.
OUR VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO
Ann Ray Charitable Trust, Jody and John Arnold, Katherine Chowdhary, Richard Constant, Jennifer and Bud Gruenberg, Tom and Marina McGourty, Ian and Pauline McLean, Pacific Islanders in Communications, Carrie Rhodes, Laura and Robert Sillerman, Peter Stampfel, Ann Tennenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, Peter Thompson, Jonathan Turner, the V&L Marx Foundation, Rosalind P. Walter, and Betsy Wolheim.
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
Gladys Baudhuin, Alasdair Black, Eustis Firmin, Merle Haggard, Donna Kail, Tom McGourty, and Grant McLennan.
WE WILL NEVER FORGET THEM.