Prologue: "Freedom Highway" in sequined flats 1(4)
1 Voices in the Mississippi night
5(11)
2 Hard time killing floor
16(6)
3 "If I Could Hear My Mother Pray Again"
22(7)
4 "This May Be the Last Time"
29(7)
5 "Gospel in a blues key"
36(7)
6 "Uncloudy Day"
43(6)
7 A guitar, an amplifier, and a gun
49(6)
8 "That's the guy who sings `Blue Suede Shoes'"
55(4)
9 "God was in the room"
59(7)
10 Sam Cooke and Aretha
66(9)
11 Modern folksingers
75(6)
12 For the love of Bob Dylan
81(9)
13 "If he can preach it, we can sing it"
90(10)
14 "Freedom Highway"
100(7)
15 "Why Am I Treated So Bad?"
107(8)
16 "Mavis, you want a hit?"
115(9)
17 The Stax era begins
124(8)
18 "When Will We Be Paid?"
132(10)
19 Mahalia passes the torch
142(5)
20 "You talk to me like I'm a kid"
147(5)
21 "I Have Learned to Do Without You"
152(5)
22 Muscle Shoals soul
157(7)
23 Back to the motherland
164(5)
24 "Cleo, you like brownies?"
169(6)
25 "Respect Yourself"
175(5)
26 "I'll Take You There"
180(8)
27 Wattstax
188(10)
28 "They don't know which category to put us in"
198(7)
29 A family tragedy
205(4)
30 Stax crumbles
209(3)
31 "Let's Do It Again"
212(5)
32 "I was never more scared in my life"
217(3)
33 "The Last Waltz"
220(5)
34 Desperate times
225(5)
35 "Slippery People"
230(5)
36 Prince and the Holy Ghost moment
235(7)
37 Pops, the second act
242(6)
38 "Whatever you do, don't give up"
248(7)
39 "My skin started moving on my bones"
255(8)
40 "I'll be the history"
263(7)
41 Hope at the Hideout
270(6)
42 "You Are Not Alone"
276(5)
43 "When the gates swing open, let me in"
281(6)
Acknowledgments 287(2)
Discography 289(4)
Notes on the source material 293(2)
Index 295