Stanley Booth is the author of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, Keith: Till I Roll Over Dead and Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South. He has written for Rolling Stone, Esquire and Playboy, among other publications. He wrote the first serious articles about Elvis Presley and Otis Redding in 1967 and won the Playboy Best Nonfiction Award for his 1970 piece on Furry Lewis. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee.
"You couldn't ask for a better guide to American music than Stanley
Booth, who drank deep from the source, experienced the past sixty
years of Memphis and knows the century before that, and writes as
flowingly and seductively as anyone alive." Luc Sante, author of
Low Life and The Other Paris
"The heroic Stanley Booth is one of the great progenitors of the
language and culture surrounding American popular music, one of the
great enshriners of various forms of potentially lost knowledge,
and one of the great survivors of the era and the scene." Jonathan
Lethem, author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Feral Detective
"[Stanley Booth] has produced some of the most gracefully written,
thoughtful, and thought-stirring musings on the charactersthe
famous and the forgotten, the infamous and the unknownwho command
the kingdom or drift through the shadowland of the South's
rich-chorded patrimony." Nick Tosches, author of Dino and
Hellfire
"Stanley is the Magus of the Southland. Elected by ancestral right,
esoteric knowledge, and apostolic succession, he knows things that
cannot be learned." David Dalton, author of Who Is That Man? and
James Dean
"The combination of Stanley's great warmth, subtle crusading, saucy
humor, dazzling intellect, dizzying breadth of interests, and
energy casts him as a truly unique literary giant....Stanley has
romanced the abyss, enduring a harrowing high-wire act between life
and death, light and dark. His profiles are voiced with
unmistakable insight, desire, empathy, and awe." Kandia Crazy
Horse, editor of Rip It Up: The Black Experience in Rock n'
Roll
"Further entertaining testimony from a music journalist whose
writing pulsates with the same blues rhythms as the soil and
streets in which they were born." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Booth is as well informed on Memphis as just about anyone and his
insights into the city and its culture are valuable for
understanding the evolution of American music." -- Shepherd
Express
"Not one pull punches, Booth is a joy to read, issuing insightful
perspectives with irreverent humor and a keen eye for detail that
most writers miss...A truly remarkable volume that deserves a wide
audience of music enthusiasts!" Blues Bash Magazine
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