SOMETHING IN THE WATER

Ben Wynne will discuss his latest book, Something in the Water: A History of Music in Macon, Georgia, 1823-1980. The story of music in Macon includes a vast, eclectic cast of characters, such as the city's first music "celebrity" Sidney Lanier, entertainment entrepreneur, Charles Douglass, jazz age divas Lucille Hegamin and Lula Whidby, big band singers, Betty Barclay and the Pickens Sisters, rock and roll founding father Little Richard Penniman, rhythm and blues icons James Brown and Otis Redding, local country star Eugene "Uncle Ned" Stripling, Capricorn Records founders Phil Walden and Frank Fenter, and the Allman Brothers Band, one of the most popular groups of the rock era.