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R&B/Soul, Blues - General & Miscellaneous, African American Music
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Rythm Oil

by Stanley Booth
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Overview

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.

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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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Disjointed but ultimately interesting, this series of essays covers 70 years of Southern and Southern-influenced music and performers, from Robert Johnson to Otis Redding to Janis Joplin. Photos. (Apr.)

Book Details

Published
April 1, 1993
Publisher
New York : Vintage Books, 1993, c1991.
Pages
254
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780679741749

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