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Booth travels to the funeral of master bluesman John Hurt with slide-guitar virtuoso Furry Lewis, a man steeped in Southern history. Here is Memphis, a small town still living through the traumas of the Civil War and yellow fever, inspiring memories of riverboats, medicine shows, murder, Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Otis Redding, the Bar-Kays, and James Brown.
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No Depression, 2/22
“This is a ridiculously good book of music writing—though, that’s an injustice, it’s a book about soul, and life, and America as much or more as it is about ‘just’ music.”
About the Author:
“This is a ridiculously good book of music writing—though, that’s an injustice, it’s a book about soul, and life, and America as much or more as it is about ‘just’ music.”
Stanley Booth was born in 1943 in Waycross, Georgia, near the Okefinokee Swamp. He graduated from Memphis State University in 1963. He has been a karate teacher, a state welfare worker, a Pinkerton operative, and a writign teacher in a school for poor black children. Living in Memphis, he began to write what are now considered classic essays about the masters of the blues. His work has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy and many other magazines and newspapers. He is the author of The True Adventures of the Rollling Stones, an epic accoutn of life on the road in the Sicties. He lives in Brunswick, Georgia, opposite St Simon's Island.
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- PublisherRandom House Value Publishing
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0517118033
- ISBN 13 9780517118030
- BindingHardcover
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