Frank Beacham

Lost stories from the modern South. Discover the hip young black and white dancers that defied segregation after World War II and gave birth to Carolina "beach music" and the shag. Visit Charlie's Place, the defiant interracial nightclub in Myrtle Beach where jazz met "race"music, and gutsy clubgoers risked their lives to take the dance floor. Witness the Ku Klux Klan's violent attempt in 1950 to stop the rise of the "forbidden" music that would soon become known as rhythm & blues. Revisit the Orangeburg Massacre and find out why, after more than half a century, an aggressive effort continues to distort the role of former Gov. Robert McNair and his police forces in the 1968 killing of three black college students in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Join the author's surprising journey to his South Carolina hometown of Honea Path when he discovers that his own grandfather organized a group of gunmen that killed seven men and wounded 30 others at the local cotton mill in 1934.

HARVEY BROOKS first came to the public's attention when he played on the classic Bob Dylan album Highway 61 Revisited, released in 1965 to great acclaim. Since then he has played with everyone from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Electric Flag, Al Kooper, John Cale and many others. This is his story, told from his own perspective, which includes first-hand accounts of such historical events as the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, as well as his esteemed career as a sought-after studio musician and staff producer for Columbia Records.