Starting with a few songs and a dream in 1943, King Records--a leading American independent--launched musical careers from a shabby brick factory on Brewster Avenue in Cincinnati's Evanston neighborho
In Finding Utopia, Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio’s forgotten nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended—on roads less traveled—finding more ghost towns, battlefields-turned
Digging beneath a layer of well-known names the authors discovered a cache of remarkable individuals from Ohio whose lives had significant national or international impact, and the stories and achieve
Now in paperback!Little Labels —Big SoundSmall Record Companies and the Rise of American MusicRick Kennedy and Randy McNuttForeword by Al KooperA wild ride through American popular music."[T]hese cats
Founded as Fort Hamilton in 1791, the City of Hamilton was settled by pioneers and immigrants and was forged in steel by her talented workers and craftsmen. Factory owners became wealthy and built mag
The author travels around Ohio in an attempt to uncover missing pieces of the past where rural America converges with small cities, fading history, and disappearing culture, in an offbeat journey arou