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KAZI 88.7 FM Book Review
Episode 324: Preston Lauterbach Explores Black Musicians Who Made Elvis Presley

KAZI 88.7 FM Book Review

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 39:22


Diverse 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 importance of recognizing Black music's roots and contributions to American culture. Preston Lauterbach is author of the American music classic The Chitlin' Circuit (2011) as well as Beale Street Dynasty (2015) and Bluff City (2019).  He has co-authored three memoirs with significant figures in Black music, including Brother Robert (2020) with the stepsister of bluesman Robert Johnson, Timekeeper (2021) with Memphis soul drummer Howard Grimes, and the Blind Boys of Alabama biography Spirit of the Century.  Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media: Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreview Instagram - @diverse_voices_book_review Email: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.com 

Beale Street Caravan
#2925 - Bill Abel

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 58:24


This 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.

WYPL Book Talk
Preston Lauterbach - Before Elvis

WYPL Book Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2025 46:46


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. 

Talk Radio Europe
Preston Lauterbach – Before Elvis: The African American Musicians who made the King...with TRE's Anna Glowinski

Talk Radio Europe

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2025 23:48


Preston Lauterbach – Before Elvis: The African American Musicians who made the King...with TRE's Anna Glowinski

Beale Street Caravan
#2917 - Cedric Burnside

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 58:24


Grammy 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.

TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast
TCBCast 345: Before Elvis: A Book Discussion (feat. Preston Lauterbach)

TCBCast: An Unofficial Elvis Presley Fan Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2025 144:52


    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 Photographer Ernest Withers" and several others about Black musicians in the early 20th century, whose latest book, "Before Elvis: The African-American Musicians Who Made The King" is being published by Hachette Books on January 7, 2025. Keen-eared Elvis fans may also recognize Preston's voice as an interviewee from 2018's "Elvis Presley: The Searcher."  Preston's new book examines the life stories of Arthur Crudup, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, Reverend W. Herbert Brewster, Junior Parker and Calvin and Phineas Newborn and numerous other major and minor figures that factor into their stories and complicated, nuanced relationships with Elvis both as a person and as a phenomenon as they impacted him, and he in turn impacted them. It's a book for Elvis fans and non-fans alike, even Elvis skeptics are sure to find it extremely revealing as Preston thoroughly dispels many rumors and accusations thrown at Elvis over the decades, with receipts, while centering his narrative around lifting and celebrating the voices and life stories of these figures far beyond a mere connection to Elvis. Yet it never shies away from hard truths, all informed by a history of Memphis, the political landscape of the Deep South in the 1950s, inner workings of the record and music publishing industries, and the ways both white and black audiences responded to changing perceptions of artists, genres and influences across the decades. It's likely to be the most in-depth discussion about the book to be done in its release media cycle, as Preston was extraordinarily generous with his time, answering all our questions, geeking out with us about Memphis music history, and having a thorough discussion that we hope will help this episode stand on its own, well into the future beyond the publication date. You can learn more about "Before Elvis" and where to buy it at: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/preston-lauterbach/before-elvis/9780306833083/?lens=hachette-books And you can follow Preston's blog on Substack at: https://thechitlincircuit.substack.com/  If you enjoy TCBCast, please consider supporting us with a donation at Patreon.com/TCBCast. Your support allows us to continue to provide thoughtful, provocative, challenging and well-researched perspectives on Elvis's career, his peers and influences, and his cultural impact and legacy.

Beale Street Caravan
#2901 - Southern Avenue

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 58:24


This 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.

Beale Street Caravan
#2850 - Bobby Rush

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 7, 2024 58:22


This 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.

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A History of The Chitlin' Circuit w/Preston Lauterbach

BLUES in the BASEMENT powered by KUDZUKIAN

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2023 47:02


Preston 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! 

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast

Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach interview Jim O'Neal, founding editor of Living Blues magazine and the research director of the Mississippi Blues Trail. Jim tells of crossing paths with Robert Johnson's memory during his long career as a journalist in Chicago and Mississippi. He shares audio of a 1980 interview with a musician named James Banister who volunteered some fascinating information touching on the subject of Robert Johnson's unrecorded repertoire while offering the strangest rumor ever recorded about the cause of Johnson's death. Jim also shares audio of the great piano player Memphis Slim who weighs in on Johnson's taste in women in a 1975 interview, not long after Slim's return to the U.S. from Paris.

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast
B.B. King vs. Robert Johnson; Jerron Paxton Interview

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2021 84:05


Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach compare and contrast B.B. King and Robert Johnson and discuss the surprising link between the two very different artists in light of a new biography of King. They revisit the great Honeyboy Edwards and his enthralling memoir The World Don't Owe Me Nothing and debate the history of Robert Johnson's murder. Later, they interview Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton, touching on a wide variety of subjects from L.A. juke joints to blackface minstrelsy, proving how painfully difficult the latter subject is to talk about.

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast
The Crossroads and Robert Johnson's Complete Recordings

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 9, 2021 89:36


Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach discuss the most irritating myth associated with Robert Johnson and conclude that the deal with the devil at the crossroads is not it. They do, however, shed light on the importance of the crossroads to Robert Johnson, and it's not what you think. The featured guest is Larry Cohn, producer of Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings who tells a tale of big record company sloth and indifference to music of historical and artistic greatness that makes dealing with the devil seem preferable by comparison. For a deeper dive into the crossroads, check out the research of Harry Middleton Hyatt, who interviewed hoodoo conjurors in the South during Robert Johnson's life and found a surprising number of the artist's lyrical inspirations. So, stuff some hot food powder into that nation sack and let's go: https://thechitlincircuit.substack.com/p/hoodoo-at-the-crossroads.

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast
Peter Guralnick Interview

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2021 60:08


Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach interview Peter Guralnick, author of Searching for Robert Johnson. Peter discusses the impact of Robert Johnson on artists Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, whom he knew, as well as his relationship with the enigmatic blues researcher Mack McCormick. You can jump to the interview at around the 9:30 mark. Elijah and Preston discuss Robert Johnson's guitar, Charles Dickens's prose, and the strange career of White researchers of Black music.

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast
Elijah Wald and Preston Lauterbach interview Mrs. Annye C. Anderson about her 'Brother Robert' and hear what happened to his guitar

Last Fair Deal: The Robert Johnson Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 14, 2021 60:40


In our debut episode, Elijah and Preston debate Robert Johnson's greatness and interview the last living person who knew Johnson well, revealing what became of a holy grail of American music: Robert Johnson's guitar. Mrs. Annye C. Anderson, author of the memoir Brother Robert, about growing up with Johnson in Memphis, makes a few revelations about Johnson's music and influences that aren't available in her book, as well as sharing charming anecdotes about the great artist as a normal human. Roll up a Bull Durham, pour a glass of non-poisonous spirits, and enjoy.

Endeavours Radio
256 - Preston Lauterbach

Endeavours Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2020 63:36


Preston 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: @EndeavoursRadio Web: www.endeavoursmedia.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dan-mcpeake/message

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
Brother Robert: Truth Behind A Blues Legend

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 50:23


This 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 of the podcast!!This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
Brother Robert: Truth Behind A Blues Legend

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2020 53:08


This 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 of the podcast!! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
Robert Johnson Revisited Part 2

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2020 33:03


The 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 of Pantheon Podcasts

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
Robert Johnson Revisited Part 2

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2020 33:48


The 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 of Pantheon Podcasts

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
Robert Johnson Revisited Part 1

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 65:45


The 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, devil-legend dispelling stuff!This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
Robert Johnson Revisited Part 1

The Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2020 66:30


The 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, devil-legend dispelling stuff! This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts

THE FUNKY POLITICS powered by KUDZUKIAN
It Really Is Just Us w/Preston Lauterbach | The Funky Politics | KUDZUKIAN

THE FUNKY POLITICS powered by KUDZUKIAN

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 38:46


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.  

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Calling the Bluff w/Preston Lauterbach | The Funky Politics | KUDZUKIAN

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Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2019 53:23


On 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.  

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Black Twitter, Memphis’ Iconic Photographer & the FBI —3.16.19

AOS – 947wpvc.org

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2019 54:28


Preston Lauterbach and Meredith Clark  document.write(''); Guests: Meredith Clark, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power.… Read More

WYPL Book Talk
Preston Lauterbach - Bluff City

WYPL Book Talk

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2019 58:11


Preston Lauterbach  is an author of non-fiction who has concentrated on the African-American experience of the American South, and Memphis in particular. Hi First book was The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll, about musical venues and musicians in the south and neighboring states serving a black clientele with good times and better music. His second book was Beale Street Dynasty, which looked at the early and prime days of the capital of black America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Today we're talking about his latest book, Bluff City: The Secret Life of Photographer Ernest Withers, the man responsible for many of the greatest photos of the civil rights era and how his legacy has come into question since it was revealed that he was an informant for the FBI.

Archive Secrets
The Secret Life of Ernest Withers | Preston Lauterbach

Archive Secrets

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2019 13:29


  In this gripping narrative history, Preston Lauterbach examines the complicated political and economic forces that informed Withers’ seeming betrayal of the people he photographed. Withers traversed disparate worlds, from Black Power meetings to raucous Memphis nightclubs where Elvis brushed shoulders with B.B. King. He had a gift for capturing both dramatic historic moments and... The post The Secret Life of Ernest Withers | Preston Lauterbach appeared first on Archive Secrets.

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FUNKY POLITICS PODCAST | WHAT DO WE DO NOW??? w/ Preston Lauterbach | KUDZUKIAN

THE FUNKY POLITICS powered by KUDZUKIAN

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2018 9:01


Author 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. 

Johnny Maraca's Rockin' Time Machine » Podcasts
Big Joe Turner: one of rock and roll’s founding Fathers

Johnny Maraca's Rockin' Time Machine » Podcasts

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2018 2:58


My new podcast: Big Joe said he just sang the blues for years and eventually they called it rock and roll. Research material: The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n Roll, by Preston Lauterbach (and a nod to … Continue reading →

Beale Street Caravan
#2216 - Club Paradise Grand Reopening featuring Bobby Rush

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2018 58:22


This 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

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Neighborhood Connect Podcast | South City Past, Present and Future with Author, Preston Lauterbach & Memphis Heritage Trails

Neighborhood Connect powered by KUDZUKIAN

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2017 38:07


Paul Young and Joyce Cox visit visit with Preston Lauterbach, author of the award-winning books Beale Street Dynasty, The Chitlin Circuit and the widely-read article, Memphis Burning  [ https://placesjournal.org/article/memphis-burning/ ]  and Felicia Harris of the Memphis Heritage Trail Project. They cover a wide range of topics: Preston's work (Beale Street Dynasty and Memphis Burning) Confederate Statues South City and its development Enjoy!!!

Beale Street Caravan
#2148 - Southern Avenue

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 11, 2017 58:22


This 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.

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Funky Politics Radio | June 03, 2017 | 60 min - Throwback: Preston Lauterbach

THE FUNKY POLITICS powered by KUDZUKIAN

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2017 108:26


[ 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…

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Memphis Still Burning? | Beale Street Dynasty-Preston Lauterbach | 55 min

THE FUNKY POLITICS powered by KUDZUKIAN

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2017 54:13


 [ 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…

Beale Street Caravan
#2124 - Scott Sharrard with The Bo-Keys

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2017 58:22


This 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.

Beale Street Caravan
#2122 - Bill Abel

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2017 58:22


This 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.

Beale Street Caravan
#2119 - Watermelon Slim and Terry “Harmonica” Bean

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2017 58:22


This 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.

Beale Street Caravan
#2118 - Jericho Road Show

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2017 58:22


This 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.

Beale Street Caravan
#2114 - Super Chikan

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2017 58:22


This 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.

Beale Street Caravan
#2113 - Cedric Burnside

Beale Street Caravan

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2017 58:22


Grammy 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.

Humans in Love ft. Zachary Stockill
Ep. 15: The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock n’ Roll: Preston Lauterbach on Rock’s Forgotten Pioneers

Humans in Love ft. Zachary Stockill

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2016 43:29


When 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 […] The post Ep. 15: The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock n' Roll: Preston Lauterbach on Rock's Forgotten Pioneers appeared first on Zachary Stockill.

Travels in Music
Ep. 15: The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock n’ Roll: Preston Lauterbach on Rock’s Forgotten Pioneers

Travels in Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2016 43:29


When 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 […] The post Ep. 15: The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock n’ Roll: Preston Lauterbach on Rock’s Forgotten Pioneers appeared first on Travels in Music.

The Chauncey DeVega Show
Ep. 77: Preston Lauterbach on Memphis, Race and Beale Street

The Chauncey DeVega Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 18, 2016 86:37


Writer 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, day-to-day life for black entertainers on the "Chitlin' Circuit", politics and life in the post war South, navigating freedom and slavery, and the life of the amazing black politician-gangster-entrepreneur-arts patron Mr. Robert Church. During this week's episode of the podcast, Chauncey talks about Donald Trump and professional wrestling, offers up his own conspiracy theory about the death of Antonin Scalia, and complains about impending decrepitude and his irritated skin.

New Books in History
Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 36:45


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 fortune with saloons, gambling, and–shockingly–white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W.C. Handy, the man called “the inventor of the blues.” In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early twentieth century. Robert and his son, Robert, Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. “Boss” Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)

New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 36:19


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 fortune with saloons, gambling, and–shockingly–white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W.C. Handy, the man called “the inventor of the blues.” In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early twentieth century. Robert and his son, Robert, Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. “Boss” Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis.

New Books in American Studies
Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 36:19


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 fortune with saloons, gambling, and–shockingly–white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W.C. Handy, the man called “the inventor of the blues.” In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early twentieth century. Robert and his son, Robert, Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. “Boss” Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in African American Studies
Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)

New Books in African American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 36:19


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 fortune with saloons, gambling, and–shockingly–white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W.C. Handy, the man called “the inventor of the blues.” In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early twentieth century. Robert and his son, Robert, Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. “Boss” Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

New Books Network
Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 36:19


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 fortune with saloons, gambling, and–shockingly–white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W.C. Handy, the man called “the inventor of the blues.” In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early twentieth century. Robert and his son, Robert, Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. “Boss” Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Music
Preston Lauterbach, “Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis” (Norton, 2015)

New Books in Music

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2015 36:19


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 fortune with saloons, gambling, and–shockingly–white prostitution. But he also nurtured the militant journalism of Ida B. Wells and helped revolutionize American music through the work of composer W.C. Handy, the man called “the inventor of the blues.” In the face of Jim Crow, the Church fortune helped fashion the most powerful black political organization of the early twentieth century. Robert and his son, Robert, Jr., bought and sold property, founded a bank, and created a park and auditorium for their people finer than the places whites had forbidden them to attend. However, the Church family operated through a tense arrangement with the Democrat machine run by the notorious E. H. “Boss” Crump, who stole elections and controlled city hall. The battle between this black dynasty and the white political machine would define the future of Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gloria Minott Presents...
Gloria Minott Presents...Preston Lauterbach_Episode 155

Gloria Minott Presents...

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2015 13:14


I 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 is author of The Chitlin Circuit (W.W. Norton, 2011), a Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and NPR book of the year, and Beale Street Dynasty (W.W. Norton), a story of sex, song, and the struggle for the soul of Memphis, out in April of 2015. More information about Preston Lauterbach and his book "Beale Street Dynasty" is available at http://prestonlauterbach.com/

New Books Network
Preston Lauterbach, “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll” (W. W. Norton, 2011)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2013 59:59


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 Peacock Records. Maybe it began in Memphis, home of W.C. Handy, Beale Street, and the Mitchell Hotel. Or maybe it was the multitude of juke joints that littered the American South from Texas to Florida, Georgia to Chicago, in the 1930s and 40s that afforded artists such as Walter Barnes, Louis Jordan, Little Richard, and Roy Brown a series of non-stop one-nighters to ply their raunchy jumped-up versions of swing and the blues to an insatiable audience of primarily African American men and women looking for good times. In the book Lauterbach details the Chitlin’ Circuit as it was, a network of promoters, clubs, radio stations, con-men, highways and, most importantly, musicians that supported an underground artistic economy and lifestyle just beneath the surface of the mainstream music industry; a network that gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll. The Chitlin’ Circuit is Preston’s first book. He is currently working on his second, a hustler’s history of Beale Street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summersell Center for the Study of the South
The Chitlin Circuit and the Road to Rock n' Roll

Summersell Center for the Study of the South

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2013 49:40


Preston Lauterbach speaks about his book, "The Chitlin Circuit and the Road to Rock n' Roll."

New Books in Music
Preston Lauterbach, “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll” (W. W. Norton, 2011)

New Books in Music

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2013 59:59


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 Peacock Records. Maybe it began in Memphis, home of W.C. Handy, Beale Street, and the Mitchell Hotel. Or maybe it was the multitude of juke joints that littered the American South from Texas to Florida, Georgia to Chicago, in the 1930s and 40s that afforded artists such as Walter Barnes, Louis Jordan, Little Richard, and Roy Brown a series of non-stop one-nighters to ply their raunchy jumped-up versions of swing and the blues to an insatiable audience of primarily African American men and women looking for good times. In the book Lauterbach details the Chitlin’ Circuit as it was, a network of promoters, clubs, radio stations, con-men, highways and, most importantly, musicians that supported an underground artistic economy and lifestyle just beneath the surface of the mainstream music industry; a network that gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll. The Chitlin’ Circuit is Preston’s first book. He is currently working on his second, a hustler’s history of Beale Street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in American Studies
Preston Lauterbach, “The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll” (W. W. Norton, 2011)

New Books in American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2013 59:59


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 Peacock Records. Maybe it began in Memphis, home of W.C. Handy, Beale Street, and the Mitchell Hotel. Or maybe it was the multitude of juke joints that littered the American South from Texas to Florida, Georgia to Chicago, in the 1930s and 40s that afforded artists such as Walter Barnes, Louis Jordan, Little Richard, and Roy Brown a series of non-stop one-nighters to ply their raunchy jumped-up versions of swing and the blues to an insatiable audience of primarily African American men and women looking for good times. In the book Lauterbach details the Chitlin’ Circuit as it was, a network of promoters, clubs, radio stations, con-men, highways and, most importantly, musicians that supported an underground artistic economy and lifestyle just beneath the surface of the mainstream music industry; a network that gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll. The Chitlin’ Circuit is Preston’s first book. He is currently working on his second, a hustler’s history of Beale Street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in African American Studies
Preston Lauterbach, “The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n' Roll” (W. W. Norton, 2011)

New Books in African American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2013 59:59


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 Peacock Records. Maybe it began in Memphis, home of W.C. Handy, Beale Street, and the Mitchell Hotel. Or maybe it was the multitude of juke joints that littered the American South from Texas to Florida, Georgia to Chicago, in the 1930s and 40s that afforded artists such as Walter Barnes, Louis Jordan, Little Richard, and Roy Brown a series of non-stop one-nighters to ply their raunchy jumped-up versions of swing and the blues to an insatiable audience of primarily African American men and women looking for good times. In the book Lauterbach details the Chitlin' Circuit as it was, a network of promoters, clubs, radio stations, con-men, highways and, most importantly, musicians that supported an underground artistic economy and lifestyle just beneath the surface of the mainstream music industry; a network that gave birth to rock ‘n' roll. The Chitlin' Circuit is Preston's first book. He is currently working on his second, a hustler's history of Beale Street. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies