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Got to Be Something Here - The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound (Paperback)
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Got to Be Something Here - The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound (Paperback)
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Beginning in the year of Prince's birth, 1958, with the recording
of Minnesota's first R&B record by a North Minneapolis band
called the Big Ms, Got to Be Something Here traces the rise of that
distinctive sound through two generations of political upheaval,
rebellion, and artistic passion. Funk and soul become a lens for
exploring three decades of Minneapolis and St. Paul history as
longtime music journalist Andrea Swensson takes us through the
neighborhoods and venues, and the lives and times, that produced
the Minneapolis Sound. Visit the Near North neighborhood where soul
artist Wee Willie Walker, recording engineer David Hersk, and the
Big Ms first put the Minneapolis Sound on record. Across the
Mississippi River in the historic Rondo district of St. Paul, the
gospel-meets-R&B groups the Exciters and the Amazers take hold
of a community that will soon be all but erased by the construction
of I-94. From King Solomon's Mines to the Flame, from The Way in
Near North to the First Avenue stage (then known as Sam's) where
Prince would make a triumphant hometown return in 1981, Swensson
traces the journeys of black artists who were hard-pressed to find
venues and outlets for their music, struggling to cross the color
line as they honed their sound. And through it all, there's the
music: blistering, sweltering, relentless funk, soul, and R&B
from artists like Maurice McKinnies, Haze, Prophets of Peace, and
The Family, who refused to be categorized and whose
boundary-shattering approach set the stage for a young Prince
Rogers Nelson and his peers Morris Day, Andre Cymone, Jimmy Jam,
and Terry Lewis to launch their careers, and the Minneapolis Sound,
into the stratosphere. A visit to Prince's Paisley Park and a
conversation with the artist provide a rare glimpse into his world
and an intimate sense of his relationship to his legacy and the
music he and his friends crafted in their youth.
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