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AUDIO: Cosimo Matassa (1985)

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages audio, 1985

The legendary New Orleans studio owner and producer talks about Crescent City race relations; NOLA vs. Memphis; the indie record business and, at length, about Aaron Neville, Professor Longhair, and the inability of the city's artists to sustain careers.

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