and you'd have the raw material for a documentary on the chitlin' circuit, that string of venues where black entertainers not only made a decent living in a segregated time but also honed their chops and got ready to raise the curtain on a new sound called rock 'n' roll. A lot of musical biopics have told parts of the story by showing how artists as different as Ray Charles, Etta James, and Ike and Tina Turner went from one club to another, learning how to "dump house," that is, turn the joint upside down with their seething rhythms and surefire stagecraft. No single film tells the whole story. Now, though, Preston Lauterbach's The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll--a fact-studded and exhaustively researched book--does.
from David Kirby: Powells: Review-A-Day: "The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll" by Preston Lauterbach
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