“Back in the kitchen of my family’s Brooklyn housing project, I’d sit alongside my little sister, eat a bowl of Cap’n Crunch cereal, and watch ‘Soul Train’.” So writes Nelson George early on in The Hippest Trip in America: Soul Train and the Evolution of Culture and Style.
Over on Pitchfork is a lengthy interview with George about the phenomenon of Soul Train and why he’s come to write a book on it. Click here to read it in full.