My goodness! Do you know Opal?
Not personally - just from gospel reissues, reviews, and the book he did.
I knew him in the '80s and published him a couple of times. Are you talking about his book of drawings, The Nations of Rock & Roll? He had a great show of early R&B I think on the Bay Area Pacifica station.
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