Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom - Hardcover

Guralnick, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060155140 ISBN 13: 9780060155148

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1986

Synopsis

Chronicles the history of Soul Music from its origins in the rural South to its heydey as a multimillion dollar business

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From the Back Cover:

Sweet Soul Music
Rhythm and blues and the Southern dream of freedom.

"[Among] my all-time top favourite books."
Rob Fleming in High Fidelity

In a narrative that captures all the tumult and liberating energy of a country in division and transition, Sweet Soul Music tells the engrossing story of the birth of modern rhythm and blues. Guralnick records the rise and fall of Stax
Records - the Memphis powerhouse label that produced a string of classics from the likes of Otis Redding and Booker T. and the MGs - and the colourful lives and times of such artists as Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke, James
Brown, Solomon Burke and Al Green.
Sweet Soul Music is a fascinating account of the decade that produced some of the finest music ever by a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest contemporary chronicler of American vernacular music. It makes for essential reading.

"The best history of '60s soul music anyone has written or is likely to write, but it is much more than that." Robert Palmer, New York Times

"Buy this book! In years to come it will seem like a bargain compared with all the wonderful records which you will have to buy after reading the vivid accounts of Sweet Soul Music." Elvis Costello

"Stunning . . . panoramic . . . a heartfelt history - one of the best books ever written on American popular music." Newsweek

"No one I've read writes as well about musicians and their music as Peter Guralnick, and Sweet Soul Music is my favourite Guralnick book." Roddy Doyle

"Guralnick has written a vastly important book." Charles Shaar Murray, NME

About the Author:

Peter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include the prize-winning two-volume Elvis Presley biography, Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; the acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway and Feel Like Going Home; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; and the novel Nighthawk Blues.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0060155140
• ISBN 13: 9780060155148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 438