“Tennessee has Nashville and Louisiana has New Orleans, but Georgia’s musical heritage is so woven into the fabric of the state and its history that it can be hard to separate one from the other.
Georgia’s music history reaches back before the Civil War, when the churches of Savannah rang out with music from slaves appreciating the one moment in their week they were free to come together. At the start of the 20th century in Columbus, former church singer Ma Rainey added a new style — blues — to her act and went on to bring the new style to listeners around the country through her albums.”
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