It’s 1965, and Muhammed Ali (who has just changed his name from Cassius Clay) is preparing for his rematch with Sonny Liston. He’s already famously defeated Liston once, so in the public eye Ali plays up his confident, boastful persona, not just bragging that he’ll trounce Liston again, but doing so in rhyme. Behind the…
When most people think of the birthplace of the blues, they may think of the Mississippi Delta or Maxwell Street in Chicago, but they probably do not think of the Wisconsin Chair Company in Grafton, Wisconsin. It is, however, in a Wisconsin furniture factory that Paramount Records put to wax the likes of Ma Rainey…
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