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306 Permission Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. Excerpts from “A Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke, Copyright © 1964; and “Stormy Monday Blues” by B. Crowder/ Earl Hines/Billy Eckstine, Copyright © 1947 by Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. International Rights Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. Cinco Puntos Press. Excerpt from “Why I am a Poet, #7,” in White Panties, Dead Friends & Other Bits & Pieces of Love. Copyright © 2006 by Bobby Byrd (1942), a poet who lives in El Paso, TX. He grew up in Memphis during the golden years of that city’s music scene. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. Hal Leonard Corporation. Excerpts from “Lead Me On” by Deadric Malone, Copyright © 1967; and “Poverty” by Dave Clark and Pearl Woods, Copyright© 1966, by Hal Leonard Corporation. International Rights Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. Malaco Music Co. and Peermusic III, Ltd. Excerpt from “I’m a Blues Man” by Joseph Shamwell/Walter Godbold/AD Prestage. Copyright © 1983 by Malaco Music Co. and Peermusic III, Ltd. International Rights Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. ...

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