Where Dead Voices Gather
Music biography, Music
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
Nick Tosches - author of HELLFIRE and DINO - spent twenty years searching for facts about Emmett Miller, a forgotten figure from the early days of jazz. A yodelling blackface performer wit an unforgettable voice, Miller's songs prefigured jaxx, country,… blues and much of the popular music of the twentieth century. Starting with a handful of 78 records and ending in a graveyard in Macon, Georgia, WHERE DEAD VOICES GATHER is part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.