Hunter Lanier

Melody Makers

By Hunter Lanier | December 2019

When music was booming, all of it was booming—the artists, the businessmen, and the journalists. In the late sixties and early seventies,…

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When music was booming, all of it was booming—the artists, the businessmen, and the journalists. In the late sixties and early seventies, one of the...

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