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Sweet Home Paradox

By Lynette Hanson

Jackson Free Press | September 23, 2004

What we have in Mark Kemp’s new book is much more than what it appears to be on the surface—it’s a cathartic treatise on the author’s life in and with the music of his formative and adult years and the musicians who brought it to him.

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Tags: Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South, Mark Kemp, Nonfiction Reviews

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