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Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author with a "lively, engaging, and often wise" (The New York Times Book Review) voice, offers a lyrical, introspective, and unforgettable account of her past and her search for the first family of Black country music.

Country music had brought Randall and her activist…

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Why read it?

1 author picked My Black Country as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

My favorite type of music book. Randall took a motif and carried me along with it throughout the book. Special merit award for Allman Brothers Band content.

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