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Origin stories teach people where they came from, how they got here, who they are and what lessons their ancestors can provide to the next generation. ....
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Michael Ray FitzGerald, a chronicler of North Florida s music legacy, has been getting some good reactions to his new book, Jacksonville and the Roots of Southern Rock, which he says is looking as if it s heading toward a second printing from the University Press of Florida. But he s also ruffled some Southern pride recently in suggesting that Southern rock ( a slippery, nebulous term ) could also encompass bands from far beyond the Mason-Dixon Line, groups such as Creedence Clearwater Revival (Northern California) and the Band (from Canada!). There’s a nutsy little contingent that really hates my guts, FitzGerald said. I’m a historian, I’m not a fan. I’m writing an objective analysis of Southern rock, which is the good, the bad and the ugly, and they expect it to be a Disney movie. ....