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Sam Phillips : the man who invented rock 'n' roll / Peter Guralnick.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316042741 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 763 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes discographies. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I dare you -- Radio romance -- The price of freedom -- Where the soul of man never dies -- Perfect imperfection -- Prisoner's dream -- Spiritual awakenings -- I'll sail my ship alone -- They'll carry you to the cliff and shove you off -- How lucky can one man get. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Phillips, Sam, 1923-2003. Sun Records. Sound engineers > Biography. Sound recording executives and producers > United States > Biography. Memphis (Tenn.) > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 781.66092 Phill-G | 31681002810299 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Draws on extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending throughout a 25-year period with both Phillips and nearly all of the legendary Sun Records artists in a portrait that explains the label's unique and influential integration of new music styles. By the author of Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love. 50,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Draws on interviews and firsthand personal observations extending throughout a twenty-five-year period with both Phillips and legendary Sun Records artists to explain the label's unique and influential integration of new music styles. - Baker & Taylor
The author of Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio, with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices unabashedly proclaiming the primacy of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical world. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over the author's 25-year acquaintance with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, this book gives us an ardent, intimate, and unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Edison.--Adapted from book jacket. - Grand Central PubFrom the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records.
The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day.
With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ânâ Roll was named Best Blues Book of the Year (Living Blues), Best Book on Country Music (by Belmont Universityâs International Country Music Conference), and was a finalist for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year, awarded by the Biographers International Organization. - Little Brown & Co
Draws on extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending throughout a 25-year period with both Phillips and nearly all of the legendary Sun Records artists in a portrait that explains the label's unique and influential integration of new music styles. By the author of Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love. 50,000 first printing. Tour.
