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stares from the old crust who,if they ' ve could have leaped out of one of Walden wasn't the first by any
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paid lip service to the liberalization of Faulkner s classier sketchbooks. Its means: the Greyhound bus station
the South, keep their unspoken outrage streets are sleepy and tree-lined, though where Little Richard wrote “Tutti
dose to their hearts. Still, the vision ol a she shows the signs of a contemporary Fruttr over a sinkful of dirty dishes
slow and sullen people with suspicious face lift, the spirit of Macon is old and still stands as a point of historical
natures and itchy trigger fingers carried dignified. Like most warmer locales,she interest, and will remain one long after
by outsiders like myself are soon has found her own comfortable pace for the building itself is gone. Same for
enough revealed as twisted cartoons. tending to business. There is a bad side Anne ' s Tick Tock, a black club that
I was joined on the ihuttle to Macon of town,of course. But you almost have served as inspiration for “Miss Anne. "
by members of the Allman Brothers to have a bad side of town to learn the The musical heritage of Macon is as rich
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Band and road crew. When an elderly things they won t tell you about on the It Ihl 100 it sits on, and what' s
gentleman in conservative grey suit and right side of the tracks. Like rock and happening l there now may well serve as
the basis fi or a future historical view.
distinguished moustache inquired as to roll.
how things were going , the Band fell llts multi-armed operation isn ’ t listed •••
into an amiable conversation about gigs , in the city's Economic Profile, but Phil Right now Phil Walden is on the
motels, and life in general on the road. Walden has done considerably more phone with a representative from the
Apparently, Macon considers the thar \ his share to breathe a new life into Music Men for Nixon, trying to rouse
Allman Brothers as respectable a Macon and the South as a whole. It goes his energy for the re- election campaign.
business operation as the bank on the far beyond the Allman Brothers and “I don’t know/ * Walden is saying coyly,
corner. And well they might. Capricorn Records to encompass *Tve been reading about how Mr.
••• recording studios, management,booking Nixon's said he wants no part of
On the surface. Macon seems like it and publishing concerns. rock'n’roll. Well, that's about all we
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