![]() ![]() ![]() King that Guralnick adds is that when B.B. Probably for some others as well-Perkins, Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis-but I haven't checked.) One priceless tidbit about B.B. You can also get Elvis and Cash albums devoted to their Sun work. (BTW, you can pick up a compilation album of Sun Records' blues artists, which you might want to have playing as you roll through this book. Memphis Recording Service (later renamed Sun Studio) opened its doors to these blues masters, who were sometimes veteran guitar pickers but as often as not raw young talents still trying to find their sound. He grew up in the South with ears that heard genius blues musicians where others' eyes only saw black men and women. Sam Phillips opened a recording studio in Memphis at just the right moment, in 1950, right before the rock 'n' roll explosion. ![]() All Sam asked Guralnick to do when writing his life's story was to "tell the truth." And it's a remarkable truth and remarkably well told. As Guralnick writes in the author intro, he was invested in the Elvis and the Sam Cooke books, but he was personally involved in the Sam Phillips bio because he knew the producer for 25 years. Peter Guralnick is best known for his two bios on Elvis Presley-which are incredible reads on the rise (what goes up) and fall (must come down) of the '50s rock 'n' roll legend. I spent a credit for this one and I would've spent a hundred. This is the book on Sam Phillips, Sun Records, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and on and on that I've been waiting for. ![]()
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