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1	Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist The final volume of Peter Guralnick's two-part Elvis Presley biography begins and ends with two Elvis departures: the first in 1958 for a two year stint in Germany with the US Army, the second his final exit in 1977, on the floor of the bathroom of his Graceland mansion, following an overdose of barbiturates. CARELESS LOVE is a revealingly ... see all copies from £1.26! new only from £1.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist In Peter Guralnick's retelling, the story of soul music is largely the story of the South, the Stax and Atlantic record labels, and the wealth of artistic talent that flourished from the 1950s to the '70s. The genre's emergence from gospel music was controversial, with some in the religious community outraged at their music being used for secular ... see all copies from £4.50! new only from £10.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist Exhaustively researched and rich in small yet telling details, LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS, the first volume of Peter Guralnick's two-volume biography of the first rock & roll star, Elvis Presley, is an impressive feat of detective work. Guralnick takes us from Presley's birth in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1935 to the death of his mother, Gladys, in 1958. ... see all copies from £1.25! new only from £6.92! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist An acclaimed biographer presents a revealing portrait of Sam Cooke--a black performer who appealed to white audiences, wrote his own songs, and controlled his own business destiny. 55 photos. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.83! \| first editions
5	Searching for Robert Johnson more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist This is an essay on the life and legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers". While probably the most influential of all blues singers, he has remained one of the most historically obscure. He was the chief influence upon Muddy Waters and inspiration for Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and a whole generation of rock and roll. He was well ... see all copies from £3.59! new only from £53.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Between Midnight and Day: The Last Unpublished Blues Archive more books like this by Dick Waterman, Peter Guralnick (Introduction by), Bonnie Raitt (Preface by) add to wishlist This volume collects rare photographs and personal recollections from one of the most important men in blues music. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.22! \| first editions
7	Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey more books like this by Peter Guralnick (Editor), Robert Santelli (Editor), Christopher John Farley (Editor) add to wishlist An illustrated study based on the seven-part PBS-TV series furnishes an impressionistic portrait of the blues and its influence on American music and culture as viewed by seven famous directors, in a collection of photographs, historical and personal essays, and interviews. Reprint. 35,000 first pr see all copies from £5.61! new only from £7.10! \| first editions
8	Elvis Presley: A Life in Music: The Complete Recording Sessions more books like this by Ernst Jorgensen, Peter Guralnick (Introduction by) add to wishlist The definitive story of Elvis's recording career -- filled with unseen photos and unexpected revelation In the last decade, the image of Elvis Presley has been changed forever -- spurred in part by a major CD reissue campaign covering Presley's entire recording career. Once merely a subject of scandal, Elvis Presley is coming back into focus for ... see all copies from £21.81! first editions
9	Rock & Roll is Here to Stay: An Anthology more books like this by William McKeen (Editor), Peter Guralnick (Introduction by) add to wishlist An electrifying collection of the most entertaining and illuminating writing on and from the rock-and-roll scene. "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay" assembles the writing of those who played the music and pushed it to new limits, as well as those who were there to witness and celebrate its power. 20 photos. see all copies from £7.48! new only from £18.07! \| first editions
10	Searching for Robert Johnson: The Life and Legend of the "King of the Delta Blues Singers" more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist A blues legend said to have learned his craft from the Devil himself, Mississippi-born early-20th century musician Robert Johnson was a primary influence both on his peers, like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, and on a later generation of young, white artists who formed the backbone of the 1960s' blues boom. Johnson was initially an indifferent ... see all copies from £5.84! new only from £7.79! \| first editions
11 view cover	Elvis at 21: New York to Memphis more books like this by Alfred Wertheimer (Photographer), Peter Guralnick (Introduction by), Chris Murray (Preface by) add to wishlist In 1956, a twenty-one-year-old Elvis Presley was at the beginning of his remarkable and unparalleled career and photographer Alfred Wertheimer was asked by Presley's new label to photograph the rising star. With unimpeded access to the young performer, Wertheimer was able to capture the unguarded and everyday moments in Elvis' life during that ... see all copies from £26.17! new only from £82.73! \| first editions
12 view cover	Careless love. more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist Last Train to Memphis, the first part of Guralnick's two-volume life of Elvis Presley, received unprecedented accolades. This concluding volume recounts the second half of Elvis's life in rich and previously unimagined detail, and confirms Guralnick's status as one of the great biographers of our time. Beginning with Presley's army service in ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £38.17! \| first editions
13 view cover	Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music more books like this by Peter Guralnick, Ernst Jorgensen add to wishlist In this lavishly illustrated Elvis Presley biography, Peter Guralnick--the author of the acclaimed two-volume study, LAST TRAIN TO MEMPHIS and CARELESS LOVE--offers a chronology of the King's life, noting pivotal moments in both his personal life and career. see all copies from £22.56!
14	Feel Like Going Home more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist Part biography, part fan letter, Peter Guralnick's classic 1971 study of the history of the blues and rock & roll through the lives of eight of its most singular, if sometimes unsung, exponents is equally revealing of its author and its subjects, who include a prickly Skip James, Muddy Waters (encountered recovering from a car accident), and the ... see all copies from £5.61! first editions
15 view cover	Feel like going home; portraits in blues & rock n' roll. more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist Part biography, part fan letter, Peter Guralnick's classic 1971 study of the history of the blues and rock & roll through the lives of eight of its most singular, if sometimes unsung, exponents is equally revealing of its author and its subjects, who include a prickly Skip James, Muddy Waters (encountered recovering from a car accident), and the ... see all copies from £2.05! new only from £9.62! \| first editions
16 view cover	Da Capo Best Music Writing 2000: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country and More more books like this by Douglas Wolk, Peter Guralnick (Editor) add to wishlist The inaugural volume of an exciting new annual series--Da Capo Best Music Writing. A Da Capo Original: Best-selling author Peter Guralnick offers his choices for some of the most extraordinary music writing of the year.. Welcome to the first volume in an exciting new annual series that celebrates the year's best American writing about music and ... see all copies from £5.30! new only from £6.20! \| first editions
17 view cover	Last Train to Memphis more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist The myth-shattering first volume of what will surely be the definitive biography of Elvis Presley, Last Train to Memphis reconstructs the early years--ending in 1958 with Elvis, in uniform, burying his mother. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £10.22! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine more books like this by James O'Neal (Editor), Amy Van Singel (Editor), Peter Guralnick (Foreword by) add to wishlist The coeditors of Living Blues magazine here assemble a number of lengthy interviews (many from the pages of their magazine) with various Blues masters, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Jimmy Reed. see all copies from £10.98! new only from £11.03!
19 view cover	Visualizing the Blues more books like this by Wendy McDaris (Editor), John Grisham (Foreword by), Peter Guralnick (Contributions by) add to wishlist The blues, a distinct and powerful music most associated with the Southern Mississippi Delta region of the United States and emanating from that region's African-American culture, is appreciated the world over. Its ability to bridge cultural differences is partly due to its deeply emotional content and its unique musical form, derived from ... see all copies from £11.84! new only from £16.80! \| first editions
20 view cover	Rock Folk more books like this by Michael Lydon, Peter Guralnick (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £29.27! \| first editions
21	Lost Highway more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist A powerful tribute to the roots of rock and roll, Lost Highwaycelebrates country music, the blues, and their revolutionary offspring, rockabilly. see all copies from £5.64! new only from £77.75! \| first editions
22 view cover	Feel Like Goin' Home by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist Peter Guralnick's writing on music and musicians is unique in the literature of American popular culture. His first three books Feel Like Going Home, Lost Highway and Sweet Soul Music, form a trilogy that has achieved classic status tracing twentieth-century American popular music back to its roots. In these books, Guralnick brings to life the ... see all copies from £5.20! new only from £5.20!
23 view cover	Nighthawk Blues more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist - The Year of the Blues reaches fever pitch in fall 2003 with the theatrical release (and airing on PBS) of seven documentary films, each by a noted feature director (Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Charles Burnett, Mike Figgis, and Clint Eastwood among them) and the release on CD of several major new blues compilations.- Peter Guralnick, celebrated ... see all copies from £1.26! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
24	The Listener's Guide to the Blues more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £38.32! \| first editions
25	V215 Lost Highway more books like this by Peter Guralnick add to wishlist see all copies from £5.58! first editions

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