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【When a Disco Monument is Drenched in Mud, the Finest Southern Soul is Born—Eddie 9V Unleashes a Roar Full of Duane Allman’s Spirit on "Rock Your Baby"】 In the silence of the deep night, an ice cube clinks against cheap whiskey. Pulling something out from the back of the record shelf at this hour—should it be a dusty disco single, or something soaked in the smell of mud, Southern Soul? Tonight, we’ve received news so exhilarating it feels like taking both of those things, skipping the compromise, and drinking them straight down with a shot of bourbon. Atlanta-born blues prodigy Eddie 9V. This man has dropped an absolute bomb. He has taken "Rock Your Baby"—the sweet, melting disco anthem by George McCrae that topped the US and UK charts in 1974—and completely dismantled and rebuilt it into a gritty slab of Southern Soul and blues. …