This article was posted by Dean quite some time ago and is still worth a share as it is highly informative, especially from a music perspective- take a read!
The original article (Dean shared) was about the amazing photographer Dsto Moore and his Macon Music Photography Project
and of course I shared this because they used MY picha
But I am one among many. Macon itself is the birthplace of Rock N Roll, Soul, Funk and Southern Rock
(Literally, Mulberry to Poplar Street and thru the Memphis/Mobile portal for specificakittiness) Thru this alley behind me is Mulberry Street, where William and Ellen Craft Made their excape from Bondage from the shacks behind the 'General Lee' building that decades later housed WIBB radio and recording studios, where James Browns recorded his first song, the same street where his drummer, the original Funky Drummer worked as a studio musician in Georgia's first Recording Studio on Mulberry Street before he met James. Up the street from Douglass Theatre, where Otis Redding launched his career and Little Richard Learned to Scream and wash dishes just down Cherry street here in his Hometown, and in the Barell Houses over the Terminal Station Railroad tracks 3 blocks away that Nurtured the community DNA of Rock N Roll on the Upper Edge of Little Tybee where the Gullah Geechee people carried their Ancient African Cotton Industry expertise (Weaving, Cultivation, Textiles and Plant Based Dyes) to the Americas and into Macon and birthed (under pressure cooker force) the cotton industry that birthed First National Bank, which funded the Railroads and initial growth of the City of Macon exactly 200 years ago as I type this . . . in 1823 . . and ting. So Happy Bi-Centennial Macon. DSTO planned this photo shoot and sat me on this legendary Speaker Box. One block in front of me is Grants Lounge where Allman Brothers worked and played, where Sweet Home Alabama was recorded, and all of this Downtown sits on Sacred Native Ocmulgee Land, destroyed Earth Pyramid Mounds where Indiginus People had built their own city called Ocmulgee, where they used to Chant with the Ancient Name of that Musical River "Ocmulgee" which in the Muscogee Language means "Boiling Water" 
That's a serious run-on sentence but you get the point 
Read this great article about DSTO and his work. https://maconmagazine.com/speak-song-to-me-the-macon-music-project/
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