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Rythm Oil: A Journey Through The Music Of The American South
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-do...more
Paperback, 264 pages
Published
November 30th 2000
by Da Capo Press
(first published 1991)
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My notice, for the No Depression music site:
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, by the great Stanley Booth.
As many of you no doubt know, Booth is also the author of “The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, ‘a harrowing account of high times and low roads with the motley crew in Villa Nellcote, the Deep South and Altamont, that makes “Gimme Shelter’’ look like...more
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, by the great Stanley Booth.
As many of you no doubt know, Booth is also the author of “The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, ‘a harrowing account of high times and low roads with the motley crew in Villa Nellcote, the Deep South and Altamont, that makes “Gimme Shelter’’ look like...more
A grand book that looks at some of the forgotten as well as the oft remembered greats of southern blues. If you are one of the ones that thinks rock and roll began in the 1980's you will be disappointed in this book. But if you appreciate the history of rock and roll and its connection with the blues and genres, this will be right up your alley. The author is from Waycross and lived a few years here on Saint simons Island. Stanley Booth has written for many publications including Rolling Stone a...more
If you read nothing in this book besides the essays about Mississippi John Hurt's funeral, the Bar-Kays' funeral, and about Stax (including Otis writing "DOck of the Bay"), it will be worth more than what you paid for it.
I thought his book about the stones was really overrated, and expected to dislike this, but it was pretty good. I imagine someone who's never been in the south, and doesn't have much musical background, would learn a lot and be dazzled by it.
Stanley Booth is able to tie all facets of rock and roll to the South, in a way that is both intriguing and beautiful. You can almost hear the music flowing from the pages.
Somewhat dated and melancholy columns primarily from the old "Eye Magazine". You don't have to be 50 + but it's sure going to help.
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Please see the following web page for an excellent article on the life & career of Stanley Booth: http://swampland.com/articles/view/ti...
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