Star Tribune: Writer for 89.3 the Current traces rise of 'Minneapolis Sound' in new book
By
Jon Bream
Star Tribune
November 01, 2017
Like Prince, Minnesota music journalist Andrea Swensson was always perplexed by Dick Clark’s comment to Prince on “American Bandstand” in 1979: “This isn’t the kind of music that comes out of Minneapolis.”
So Swenson set out to research the R&B scene in the Twin Cities pre-Prince. The resulting book, “Got to Be Something Here: The Rise of the Minneapolis Sound,” is an illuminating slice of Twin Cities cultural and political history.
