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Rocking Cincinnati's R&B Cradle

RJ Smith, The New York Times, 23 January 2009

A CROWD GATHERS around crumbling walls that are a small evolutionary step up from a miserable pile of bricks. The facade leaks water, and masonry falls off the sides of this big, old building, in a working-class neighborhood here.

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