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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Detroit Jazz
A Top-Down Motown Bebop Pubescence: Twelve Takes
Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn
The Donald Byrd–Pepper Adams Quintet: Jazz in Detroit, 1958–61
Teddy Harris: A Jazz Man in Motown
Rebirth of Tribe
Strata Records
Roy Brooks: Detroit Downbeat
Musician Interrupted: Faruq Z. Bey
2. Detroit Blues
Alberta, Alberta: The Alberta Adams Story
John Lee Hooker and Joe Von Battle: No Magic, Just Men
Searching for the Son: Delta Blues Legend Son House in Detroit
Johnnie Bassett: Cadillac Bluesman from the Motor City
Motor City Blues through the Ages
3. Early Detroit Soul: The Pre-Motown Sounds
Fortune Records for Truly Great Music
Nathaniel Mayer in the Twenty-First Century
Back in Detroit City with Andre Williams
Jack Scott: Detroit’s Unsung Rock ’n’ Roll Pioneer
Two Detroit Music Icons and Two Classic Theaters: Artie Fields and Harry Balk
Nine Times out of Ten: The Clix Records Story
4. Motown: The Sound of Young America
The Story of Hitsville: Motown Days
For Beans: Written on the Occasion of the Funeral Service for Dr. Thomas “Beans” Bowles Sr., February 5, 2000, at Central United Methodist Church
Half a Mile from Heaven: The Love Songs of Motown
Waiting for Smokey Robinson
Flo Ballard: The Love Supreme
Mary Wells, “My Guy,” and the Queen of Motown
An Elegant Equation: Changing World, Changing Motown
The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Black Forum Records: Detroit Rarity of the Revolution
Excerpt from What’s Going On: Marvin Gaye and the Last Days of the Motown Sound
The Motortown Revues: An Edited Excerpt from The Story of Motown
Detroit, My Detroit
5. Detroit Rocks: The ’60s: Kick Out the Jams
DKT/MC5: The Truest Possible Testimonial
Robin Tyner: Early Days/Final Days
Amboy Dukes
The Story of Detroit’s Third Power Band
Bob Seger: The Early Years
Seger Unsettled
The Rationals
Strange Früt: An East-Side Story of the Früt
Strange Mysterious Sounds: The Demise of Ted Lucas and the Spike-Drivers
6. Detroit Rocks into the ’70s and Beyond: From Everyone Loves Alice to Cass Corridor Punk to Death
Alice Cooper All American: A Horatio Alger Story for the ’70s
Twenty-Five Years of Creem: Kiss and Not Tell, or Confessions of One of the Film Foxes
Who Is the Sugar Man?
Dangerous Diane: Detroit Art Rock and Punk in the Late ’70s
A Band Called Death
How the Gories Ruined Music
Kid Rock before the Fame: The Definitive Oral History
Kid Rock: From Apple Orchards to the World
Cathouse: The Cass Corridor’s Last Great Band
7. Hip-Hop, Ghettotech, Donuts, and Techno Dreams
Frankly Speaking: Awesome Dre’s Outspoken Detroit
Eminem in 2002
Eminem: A Detroit Story
Inner-City Blues: The Story of Detroit Techno
For Dilla’s Sake and the Love of Donuts
Ghettotech: Detroit Is Just Here to Party
Champ’s Town
8. Sounds of Detroit: Country York Brothers and Latin Musica
Mellow Milestone
The Big Three: Contemporary Roots of Latin Sounds in Detroit—The Cruz Brothers, Ozzie Rivera, and Luis Resto
9. Detroit Music Miscellanea
Freeform Radio Master: Dave Dixon on WABX
The Day I Saved WABX
Lee Abrams and the Cold-Blooded, Calculated Assassination of Detroit Rock and Roll Radio: An Eyewitness Account
Gary Grimshaw: Poster Child
Grande Daze, Bubble Puppies, and Suburban Hippie Rock
Random Thoughts: A Brief History of WSU’s Legendary Zoot’s Coffee
Rarities of the Revolution: Archie Shepp, the MC5, and John Sinclair
Detroit’s Historical Archer Records from the Inside-Outside
Majesty Crush Lurking in the Shadows of Motown and Detroit Techno
A View of Third Man Records from the Inside
Future Now: Detroit’s Twenty-First-Century Record Label Jett Plastic
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
Contributors
Credits
Index
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