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Robert Gordon

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How Jukeboxes Made Memphis Music

When R.E. Buster Williams ruled jukeboxes and jukeboxes ruled music.

by Robert Gordon via Oxford American on December 10, 2024
How Stax Records Set an Example for America

Nelson “Little D” Ross talks soul and significance with music historian Robert Gordon.

by Robert Gordon, Nelson Ross via The Bitter Southerner on February 11, 2014

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photograph of Ollie Jackson

The Ballad of Ollie Jackson

How the baddest man in the St. Louis underworld failed to become a folk hero.

by Eric McHenry via North American Review on February 22, 2026

"I Baptize Thee," 1940 oil on burlap painting of a baptism.

How Memphis Gave Gospel the Holy Ghost

On the evening of October 7, 1952, gospel promoters booked the Spirit of Memphis for a concert in Memphis’s Mason Temple.

by Robert F. Darden via Oxford American on December 10, 2024

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