Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown by Gordon, Robert
Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown by Gordon, Robert

Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert...
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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown by Gordon, Robert

Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

$65.90
Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown by Gordon, Robert

Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

$65.90
Author: Robert Gordon
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. --Keith Richards

An emotional map of musical Memphis. If you don't know these characters, let Robert Gordon introduce you. --Elvis Costello

Robert Gordon's book is proof that Southern heritage is American heritage, and all sorts of people--black and white, familiar and strange, dead and alive--are what it is. --Greil Marcus

Profiles and stories of Southern music from the acclaimed author of Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion.

The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music--home of the blues, the birthplace of rock and roll, a soul music capital. We know the greatest hits, but celebrated author Robert Gordon takes us to the people and places history has yet to record. A Memphis native, he whiles away time in a crumbling duplex with blues legend Furry Lewis, stays up late with barrelhouse piano player Mose Vinson, and sips homemade whiskey at Junior Kimbrough's churning house parties. A passionate listener, he hears modern times deep in the grooves of old records by Lead Belly and Robert Johnson.

The interconnected profiles and stories in Memphis Rent Party convey more than a region. Like mint seeping into bourbon, Gordon gets into the wider world. He beholds the beauty of mistakes with producer Jim Dickinson (Replacements, Rolling Stones), charts the stars with Alex Chilton (Box Tops, Big Star), and mulls the tragedy of Jeff Buckley's fatal swim. Gordon's Memphis inspires Cat Power, attracts Townes Van Zandt, and finds James Carr always singing at the dark end of the street.

A rent party is when friends come together to hear music, dance, and help a pal through hard times; it's a celebration in the face of looming tragedy, an optimism when the wolf is at the door. Robert Gordon finds mystery in the mundane, inspiration in the bleakness, and revels in the individualism that connects these diverse encounters.

Author: Robert Gordon
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 03/06/2018
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781632867735


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/13/2017
Booklist 01/01/2018 pg. 29
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2018
Shelf Awareness 04/03/2018

About the Author

Robert Gordon has been writing about Memphis music and history for thirty years and is the author of It Came from Memphis, Can't Be Satisfied, The King on the Road, The Elvis Treasures, and Respect Yourself. He won a Grammy in 2011 for his liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His film work includes producing and directing the documentary Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story and also the Emmy-winning Best of Enemies. Gordon lives in Memphis.

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