Howlin' Wolf and his band, dressed in white shirts, snappy trousers and brightly shined shoes, laughingly pretend to pick cotton in a field in Arkansas. A young B. B. King poses with one foot on a piano stool, holding a book of gospel songs. Elvis Presley hangs out backstage, surrounded by black teenagers in Native American costumes, at a concert presented by the rhythm-and-blues station WDIA; a sign overhead proclaims,...
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