Host Dave is joined by Cleveland Kurtz and Max Whiting from the Rhode Island Rhythm & Blues Preservation Society to discuss their work making music and inspiring the next generation of musicians in the Ocean State. During the Last Chapter they discuss: do you listen to music while you read?

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Books

God's Trombones by James Weldon Johnson

Browse books in the Images of America series

March Book One by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell

Bob Marley by Stephen Davis

Jazz For Beginners by Ron David and Vanessa Holley

Music Is My Mistress by Duke Ellington

Other

RI Rhythm & Blues Preservation Society

Rhode Island Historical Society