Colin Asher w/ Maurice Chammah: The Midnight Special

Join First Light Books for an evening with Colin Asher, whose new book opens on Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter being made to perform in prison clothes, and builds from that image into a sweeping argument: that American music as we know it, from the blues to hip-hop, was shaped in no small part by policing and prisons. The Midnight Special tells that story through five musicians across the twentieth century, and asks who our culture lets play the outlaw, and who it punishes.