Rhythm Oil: Journey Through the Music of the American South - Couverture souple

Booth, Stanley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099190710 ISBN 13 : 9780099190714

Editeur : Vintage, 1993

Synopsis

A collection of 20 essays centred on Memphis, Tennessee, and comprising a fusion of fact, essays and fiction in which the author describes his encounters with major figures of American blues and soul music. Stanley Booth also wrote "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Here are Stanley Booth's acclaimed writings about the South and the music that emanates from it. Rythm Oil—you don't have to know how to spell "rhythm" to have it in your body and soul—is a potion sold on Beale Street in Memphis. The home of Sun Records, B. B. King, Elvis Presley, Howlin' Wolf, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Memphis is also the home of fantastic stories and broke-down dreams. As Booth makes his way from Memphis to the Mississippi Delta to the depths of the Georgia woods exploring the sounds, the music, and the culture of the American South, "he has produced some of the most gracefully written, thoughtful, and thought-stirring musings on the characters—the famous and the forgotten, the infamous and the unknown—who command the kingdom or drift through the shadowland of the South's rich-chorded patrimony" (Nick Tosches, Los Angeles Times).

Revue de presse

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.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099190710
• ISBN 13: 9780099190714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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