The Nelson George Mixtape

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How Motown moving to LA shifted black pop culture production

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Ask any Detroit resident of a certain age and they’d bemoan the exit of Berry Gordy’s Motown Records from the Motor City in the early ‘70s. Ask any of the remaining Funk Brothers, the fantastic session players who performed on all those production line hits, and they’d wax nostalgic about their long nights in the basement at 2648 West Gra…

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