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Rashod Ollison


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Rashod Ollison is an award-winning music and culture critic and native of Little Rock, Arkansas. He has been a staff critic at The Dallas Morning News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Journal News in Westchester, N.Y., The Baltimore Sun and The Virginian-Pilot.

He is a 2000 graduate of The University of Arkansas, where he earned a B.A. in creative writing and journalism with a minor in African-American studies. Ollison’s literary debut, Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl, is a memoir set to publish in Jan. 2016 by Beacon Press.

For lectures and interviews, contact Rashod at [email protected]

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The songs of “Soul Serenade�

As I wroteSoul Serenade, I regularly haunted record shops and perused my own sprawling collection for songs that instantly transported me to the years I focus on in the book. This Spotify playlist includes the artists whose songs inspired the tone of the book and brought all the memories back to life.

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Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blue...

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“All the men in Daddy's records sang of love with drastically imbalanced emotion. In the span of three minutes, they begged for it and kicked it to the curb. They turned to anybody, even to God, with a perpetual request: Please send me someone to love. But once they got it, love scrambled them.”
Rashod Ollison, Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl

“And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free.”
Rashod Ollison, Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl

“We come here (literally) reaching for intimacy and love. But it seems soon after our arrival, we're made to believe that they're luxuries not necessities.”
Rashod Ollison



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