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    <body><![CDATA[The combination of the writing talents of Nick Tosches with rock n' roll is a treat. Here we go beyond Elvis as ground zero for American rock n' roll.  Tosches goes beyond Elvis that is almost myth-like.  Essential book on the roots of rock - and basically beyond.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not hate this quite as much as his book Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and Roll (which should have been titled: Minstrelsy and Other Assorted Genres: The Twisted Roots of Country).  I was very hopeful when I saw that he put discographies for each of the profiled artists, and might avoid the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57010448">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To be charitable towards a man whom I genuinely respect, I will point out that this was one of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Nick Tosches" title=" Nick Tosches"> Nick Tosches</a>' first books.  Tosches' tough-guy macho posturing is a weakness that runs through even his most mature works.  This is why the gleefully dark mafia send-up <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Cut Numbers" title=" Cut Numbers"> Cut Numbers</a> is so refreshing--he's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2746469">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the &quot;look at me i'm flippant&quot; tone gets old after about...uh two or three WORDS, but worth a look anyway.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Long before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips's Sun Records studio in 1954, rock 'n' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, the Dominoes, the Midnighters, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Wanda Jackson, and Johnny Ace. More than just a series of shrewd and evocative portraits of these and sixteen other performers, this book is also a paean to a forsaken time of relentless excess, sudden ruin, and fierce music. For this edition, the author has contributed a new listing of recent CD reissues. From 1945 to 1955, from Chinese hillbillies to Elvis's long-lost twin brother, here are the Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book.]]></body>
    
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