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By Duane Byrge

PARK CITY -- Black soul from Mississippi and white hillbilly music from Tennessee met up and married around Memphis and, essentially, rock 'n' roll was born. Centering on one of the good-ol'-boy icons of this musical magic, Forty Shades of Blue is a drab, minor-key melodrama that seems millions of miles from the barbecue 'n' blues world of Beale Street and the musical greatness that sprang from that Sun Records region.

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