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Examines the roots of blues and soul music in a tour of the Old South, exploring the musical culture that produced Otis Redding, Elvis, Sam Phillips, B.B. King, and others
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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.”
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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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- PublisherVintage Books
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0679741747
- ISBN 13 9780679741749
- BindingPaperback
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