Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom by Peter Guralnick |
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~ Hank Williams
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Attracting plaudits from the likes of Lester Bangs and Charles Shaar Murray, Peter Guralnick is justifiably rated as one of the world's finest writers on American music, and his two books on the life of Elvis Presley are widely recognised as indispensable classics of the genre. Lost Highway was originally published in 1979, and specifically considers what's often described as 'roots' music. It stands perfectly well on its own or as part of a trilogy - with Sweet Soul Music and Feel Like Going Home - that charts the history of the music and popular culture of that most 20th century of lands, the USA. Dedicating the book to Sam Phillips and Chester Burnett, who he considers 'the real heroes of rock 'n' roll', Guralnick exhaustively trawls the lost highway of the title, meeting honky-tonk icons, country legends and blues giants. Some of the names he tells of are famous all over the world, others are obscure, but clearly deserving of more than the perfunctory footnote previously allotted to them. He links them all through the 'strangely disembodied life of the road', upon which they all develop some sort of dependency, be it good or bad, healthy or damaging. Charlie Rich and Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings and Howlin' Wolf, Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb - the road hugely affected them all in very different ways. A true fan, Guralnick's humility informs and underlines much of what he has written in this authoritative work, and he is more than happy to keep a 'respectful distance' from those whose lives he considers. He acknowledges the subjectivity of much of his writing, and happily confesses that he was 'trying to pass along a passion'. He does so in style in this fascinating book, a must for anyone with even a passing interest in music. (Kirkus UK)
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This is a tribute to American roots music - country, rockabilly and the blues - spotlighting artists both celebrated and obscure, including Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Merle Haggard and Sleepy LaBeef. Guralnick conveys the passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes desperately, on the road. It is the second book of a triology focusing on the most revolutionary eras in music history.
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Attracting plaudits from the likes of Lester Bangs and Charles Shaar Murray, Peter Guralnick is justifiably rated as one of the world's finest writers on American music, and his two books on the life of Elvis Presley are widely recognised as indispensable classics of the genre. Lost Highway was originally published in 1979, and specifically considers what's often described as 'roots' music. It stands perfectly well on its own or as part of a trilogy - with Sweet Soul Music and Feel Like Going Home - that charts the history of the music and popular culture of that most 20th century of lands, the USA. Dedicating the book to Sam Phillips and Chester Burnett, who he considers 'the real heroes of rock 'n' roll', Guralnick exhaustively trawls the lost highway of the title, meeting honky-tonk icons, country legends and blues giants. Some of the names he tells of are famous all over the world, others are obscure, but clearly deserving of more than the perfunctory footnote previously allotted to them. He links them all through the 'strangely disembodied life of the road', upon which they all develop some sort of dependency, be it good or bad, healthy or damaging. Charlie Rich and Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings and Howlin' Wolf, Hank Williams and Ernest Tubb - the road hugely affected them all in very different ways. A true fan, Guralnick's humility informs and underlines much of what he has written in this authoritative work, and he is more than happy to keep a 'respectful distance' from those whose lives he considers. He acknowledges the subjectivity of much of his writing, and happily confesses that he was 'trying to pass along a passion'. He does so in style in this fascinating book, a must for anyone with even a passing interest in music. (Kirkus UK)
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This is a tribute to American roots music - country, rockabilly and the blues - spotlighting artists both celebrated and obscure, including Elvis Presley, Ernest Tubb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Merle Haggard and Sleepy LaBeef. Guralnick conveys the passion that drove these men to music-making and that kept them determinedly, and sometimes desperately, on the road. It is the second book of a triology focusing on the most revolutionary eras in music history.
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