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Index
Cover
Dedication
Prologue: “Freedom Highway” in sequined flats
1. Voices in the Mississippi night
2. Hard time killing floor
3. “If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again”
4. “This May Be the Last Time”
5. “Gospel in a blues key”
6. “Uncloudy Day”
7. A guitar, an amplifier, and a gun
8. “That’s the guy who sings ‘Blue Suede Shoes’”
9. “God was in the room”
10. Sam Cooke and Aretha
11. Modern folksingers
12. For the love of Bob Dylan
13. “If he can preach it, we can sing it”
14. “Freedom Highway”
15. “Why Am I Treated So Bad?”
16. “Mavis, you want a hit?”
17. The Stax era begins
18. “When Will We Be Paid?”
19. Mahalia passes the torch
20. “You talk to me like I’m a kid”
21. “I Have Learned to Do Without You”
22. Muscle Shoals soul
23. Back to the motherland
24. “Cleo, you like brownies?”
25. “Respect Yourself”
26. “I’ll Take You There”
27. Wattstax
28. “They don’t know which category to put us in”
29. A family tragedy
30. Stax crumbles
31. “Let’s Do It Again”
32. “I was never more scared in my life”
33. “The Last Waltz”
34. Desperate times
35. “Slippery People”
36. Prince and the Holy Ghost moment
37. Pops, the second act
38. “Whatever you do, don’t give up”
39. “My skin started moving on my bones”
40. “I’ll be the history”
41. Hope at the Hideout
42. “You Are Not Alone”
43. “When the gates swing open, let me in”
Photographs
Acknowledgments
About Greg Kot
Discography
Notes on the source material
Index
Copyright
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