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Meet Jerry Brock: A Man in Demand

January 1, 1997 by: John Radanovich

Just try finding someone more involved in and essential to the New Orleans music scene than Jerry Brock. Before moving to New Orleans nearly 20 years ago to start a community radio station, the lanky, soft-voiced Brock was the youngest executive in the history of CBS Records, and managed three Discount Records stores in St. Louis. "At 19, I was making more than my father, who'd worked for years at the Phillips Petroleum Company. I had hair down past my ass. It drove him crazy." Yet Jerry alre...

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