Mouse Watkins is the leader of the Bad Apples, the funkiest old school soul band in St. Louis. For twenty years, he’s been laying down smoking grooves, tasty rhythms and gutbucket funk in dance clubs up and down the Mississippi, always one break away from the Big Time. But Mouse is starting to wonder if his break will ever come.

Give the Drummer Some is an odyssey into the heart of pop music and the soul of St. Louis, a book about the choices all artists—even great artists—have to make when the brilliant spotlight of stardom fails to shine on them. by Mark Zero

"A novel that breaks through cliches and stereotypes to find real soul." —Melissa Taylor, Music Video Director

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