Tough Breaks

Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away. In Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music , music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years’ worth of interviews with dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, party hosts, promoters, and the founders of the clubs, labels and record stores that shaped the genre. With the untold stories behind labels like Unruly Records and clubs like The Paradox, Shipley digs deep into big personalit