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Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll
FEEL LIKE GOING HOME celebrates the building blocks of blues and early rock 'n' roll, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Chess record label. "Brings it back alive better than any book of its kind ever published."--Charles Shaar Murray, NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS. 80 photos.
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
July 1st 1999
by Back Bay Books
(first published 1000)
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Peter Guralnick wrote an amazing pair of books about Elvis, and a very thorough and fascinating one on Sam Cooke. I think it's due to the success of those works that this collection of essays on the blues was re-printed (along with similar collections on country and soul music that are in my to-read list). I didn't think I cared about Elvis, and the only blues record I own is a B.B. King greatest hits comp. It's a testament to Guralnick's writing that I find myself absorbed even when he's exp...more
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This is one of Peter Guralnick's earliest books, written back when he was telling us about well-known names like Howlin' Wolf and obscure musicians like Deford Bailey. He has such a genuine love of American roots music that he can convince a Muddy Waters fan to give Hank Snow and Charlie Rich a listen ... and vice versa. I have been a die-hard Charlie Rich fan for 25+ years now and it's due to Peter Guralnick. I used to think Rich was a hack ("Behind Closed Doors"). Now I think he's on...more
A treasure of great writing, originally published as magazine articles, on early roots music and blues greats.
Not up there with his best, but still pretty darn good
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Peter Guralnick is an American music critic, writer on music, and historian of US American popular music, who is also active as an author and screenwriter. He has been married for over 45 years to Alexandra. He has a son and daughter, Jacob and Nina.
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