Hub City Music Makers One Southern Town's Popular Music Legacy By Peter Cooper ISBN: 0-963873-19-9 Paperback 288 pages, 8.5 x 11 200 photographs Publication Date: June 1997 $20.00

Hub City Music Makers focuses on the popular musicians from Spartanburg and chronicles their influence on the music world at large. Against the backdrop of Spartanburg's century-old classical music tradition, Music Makers tells the story of the city's other exports─ from blues and jazz musicians of the '30s, the country stars launched by WSPA Radio, to Southern Rock's own Marshall Tucker Band and beyond. Among the Spartanburg-bred musicians included in the book are the Dixie Hummingbirds, Daryle Ryce, and Joe Bennett and the Sparkletones. The book also contains an in-depth interview with the late singer/songwriter Walter Hyatt.