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Paperback Riders: Peter Guralnick “Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll”

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Sam Phillips was a single-minded visionary who some say invented rock ‘n’ roll. “If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a million dollars!” This […]

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