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Author:   Andy Bradley ,  Roger Wood
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780292763180

ISBN 10:   0292763182
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 April 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Deniz Tek Acknowledgments Introduction: The Case for Greatness Chapter 1. The Raid Chapter 2. Domestic Crude Chapter 3. The Independent Quinn Chapter 4. Gold Star Records Chapter 5. Label's Demise, New Studio's Rise: Recording in the House Chapter 6. Pappy Daily and Starday Records Chapter 7. The Big Studio Room Expansion Chapter 8. Daily's Dominance and D Records Chapter 9. Little Labels: Blues, Country, and Sharks Chapter 10. Into the '60s and Quinn's Last Sessions Chapter 11. Duke-Peacock: The Gold Star Connection Chapter 12. The HSP Corporation Experiment Begins Chapter 13. A House of Rock, Despite the Muck Chapter 14. The HSP Aftermath and a New Direction Chapter 15. International Artists Record Company: The Psychedelic Business Plan Chapter 16. Disillusioned Dissolution Chapter 17. Meaux Moves In, SugarHill Ascends Chapter 18. The Freddy Fender Phenomenon Chapter 19. The Later '70s and Early '80s Chapter 20. Meaux's Final Phase Chapter 21. Modern Music (Ad)Ventures Chapter 22. Emergence of a RAD Idea Chapter 23. Millennial Destiny Chapter 24. Still Tracking in the Twenty-first Century Appendix A: Catalogue of Interviews Appendix B: Chart Records from the House of Hits Appendix C: Selected Discographies: A Partial History Appendix D: Chronology of Gold Star/SugarHill Engineers Bibliography Index

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Andy Bradley has been a professional recording engineer since 1978 and has served as SugarHill's chief engineer for the past 25 years. He has worked on Grammy-nominated projects with extensive credits in classical, jazz, Latin, blues, rock, folk, country, and every imaginable flavor of gospel music. Roger Wood is the author of Texas Zydeco and Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues. A Professor of English at Houston Community College Central, he also is a contributing writer to The Roots of Texas Music, The Handbook of Texas Music, Encyclopedia of the Blues, and various other books and periodicals.

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