Introduction. There's a redneck in the soul band -- We only had this one thing in common : we liked all types of music : the birth of the country-soul triangle -- I got what I got the hard way : the music and mythology of the Memphis sound -- Selling soul : black music and black power in Memphis -- Take the white music and make it sound black : the Muscle Shoals sound in the 1970s -- Pride and prejudice : race and country music in the era of backlash -- The south's gonna do it again : the racial politics of the new southern music of the 1970s -- Disco and down home blues : country and soul at the end of the 1970s -- Coda. On accidental racists : interracial friendship, historical memory, and the country-soul triangle.