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Rock ‘n’ Roll and Retro-Soul

Jackson Free Press | March 15, 2013

Steve Johnson was delivering a FedEx package to the animal clinic where his friend Zac Cockrell worked in 2008 when Cockrell asked if he wanted to play some music together after work.

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