Programmed chaos : Dewey Phillips on the air -- Before the storm : Dewey arrives at the five-and-dime -- The white brother on Beale Street -- The new Memphis sound : the birth of black programming -- ...
Two years before Alan Freed ""discovered"" rock 'n' roll, deejay Dewey Phillips was introducing white audiences to largely unfamiliar ""race"" music by Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and B. B. King and ...