Peter Guralnick's Books
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It Came From MemphisRobert Gordon begins where most chroniclers of the music world end and spins a magical fairy tale peopled with Delta bluesmen, a peanut vendor, a...Read More
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Indiewire, March 27, 2013
...independently producing the project which is based on the book "Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke" by Peter Guralnick (who also was behind the officially sanctioned, Grammy-award-winning documentary "Sam Cooke: Legend.") Best known for songs like "A...
Indiewire, March 26, 2013
...Across The Universe, and The Commitments - Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais), which was an adaptation of Peter Guralnick's 2005 bio, Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke. The news came 4 years after author Guralnick produced the award-winning...
Associated Content, March 4, 2013
...49. "Things We Said Today: Conversations with the Beatles" by Geoffrey Giuliano 50. "Elvis Day By Day" by Peter Guralnick 51. "The Rolling Stones: A Life on the Road" by Jools Holland and Rolling Stone Press Staff 52. "Blues Who's Who: A...
Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 1, 2013
...punk favorites, immersing himself in pre- and postwar blues, country and rockabilly, and devouring roots music histories like Peter Guralnick’s trilogy, “Feel Like Going Home,” “Lost Highway” and “Sweet Soul Music.” As a break from...
Washington Times, February 20, 2013
...who, over the years, Ive come to appreciate. There is a good and legit bio of Elvis by Peter Guralnick, but that is literally a different story. In fact, real biographies by real biographers belong in a different category than gossip mongers, and...
Oregonian, December 21, 2012
...who does it) in an interview with Time and says there's interest in a "Positron" TV series. Peter Guralnick, the brilliant biographer of Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke, has a website at last, and his great books "Last Train to Memphis," "Careless Love,"...
Park Record, November 27, 2012
...biographies and autobiographies of both historic and contemporary musical icons probably jumped into my reading wheelhouse back when Peter Guralnick's "His Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley" showed up in a box of books lent to me by my...
The Hindu, January 7, 2013
...the time he was 10 years old. In Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick notes, “This drive to escape poverty is what brought Elvis fame and fortune: his determination led him to work harder and longer than most around...
Oregonian, December 21, 2012
...who does it) in an interview with Time and says there's interest in a "Positron" TV series. Peter Guralnick, the brilliant biographer of Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke, has a website at last, and his great books "Last Train to Memphis," "Careless Love,"...
Oxford American Magazine, December 20, 2012
...many ardent votaries as bluesmen like Robert Johnson. Only daring artistsCaptain Beefheart for onehave tried to cover him. Peter Guralnick writes in Leon Ashley and Margie Singleton (ca. 1980). Courtesy of Margie Singleton. Margaret Louis Ebey was...
Oxford American Magazine, December 20, 2012
...many ardent votaries as bluesmen like Robert Johnson. Only daring artistsCaptain Beefheart for onehave tried to cover him. Peter Guralnick writes in Leon Ashley and Margie Singleton (ca. 1980). Courtesy of Margie Singleton. Margaret Louis Ebey was...
Guardian.co.uk, December 6, 2012
...or Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, for instance; aficionados have long been aware of him thanks to Peter Guralnick's classic account of the Muscle Shoals scene in the 60s, Sweet Soul Music. In the appendices of that book, Guralnick recommended a whole...
Our Weekly, December 6, 2012
...Belvin car while another was underneath it.” In the book, “Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke,” author Peter Guralnick discusses the Belvins’ death. “It was the same old ugly peckerwood story: the show was booked to play a segregated...
Electronic Musician, December 3, 2012
...Jerry Lee Lewis to Nellie Lutcher, and more. Such music-writing legends as Greil Marcus, William Gay, Stanley Crouch, Peter Guralnick, Steve Martin, Rosanne Cash, Nick Tosches, and Kevin Brockmeier—among many others—have contributed memorable writing...
