Charles Hughes joins us to talk about Memphis music history, his forthcoming book on race and professional wrestling, and his home town’s obsession with getting a Red Lobster.

Charles Hughes

- Book: Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2015).

- Twitter: @CharlesLHughes2

- Instagram: @CharlesHughes2

Media recs:
- Music: John Prine, Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley

- TV/Movies: GLOW, Hot Rod, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, This Is Spinal Tap, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, MacGruber, Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children, Fear of a Black Hat