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"What they originally planned was for me to curate music that reflects the book," Russell Gunn said of "The Blues and Its People." "And I said, 'It just so happens that this was exactly what I was doing.' The timing was incredible."
Credit: Courtesy of The Apollo Theater/Shahar Azran