Hey there if you're listening to this and you support us on Patreon, you can hear it via the

Patreon page and free. He took the bomb. Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're revisiting our

interview with Mary Clayton. I'm Greg Cott and I'm Jim Deregadis but first

we're going back to our interview with Donnie Walton

about her rock and roll fantasy novel, The Final Revival of Opel and Neve,

which drew inspiration from many artists, including Mary Clayton.

That is absolutely right, Jim.

It's an extraordinary novel.

It gets a lot more right about the music industry than just about any other novel I've ever

read.

And that's why we're talking about a novel on sound opinions

something we've never done before actually novel almost I started off by

asking Donnie for a quick summary of what her book is about.

Oh, absolutely. Well, thank you so much for having me.

Jim and Greg. It's a pleasure and an honor to be here,

considering both your long and storied careers as music journalists.

So Opel and Neve are an unconventional duo, a black American woman and a white Englishman, who team up in the early 1970s New York City to make weird

rock and roll together and they rock it to the spotlight following the violent fallout from a

promotional concert when a rival band on their label

brandishes a Confederate flag and the impetus for the story being told is

that Opel and Neve are considering reuniting for a big festival in 2016 and they're sort of renewed interest in their origin story.

And the reason I told this story is pretty personal.

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