Ebook: The chitlin' circuit: and the road to rock 'n' roll

Combining firsthand reporting with historical research, a music journalist provides a musical history of the birth of rock 'n' roll in the black juke joints where James Brown and B.B. King got their start.;A hundred dollars crooked -- The midget maestro -- The stroll -- Sunset -- Rock and stomp opus -- The loser goes to the hospital, the winner goes to jail -- The bronze peacock -- The gate swings -- 'Tween the Tip In Inn and the Church of God -- Roy Brown's good rockin' revival -- Female trouble -- All part of the game -- A little like going to heaven -- Crossover -- Shootin' and cuttin' and shit -- The hardest-working man in show busines.