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The Million Dollar Quartet

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 0857128566
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Million Dollar Quartet written by Stephen Miller and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million Dollar Quartet’ is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4, 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session among Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash.The events of the session. Very few participants survive. Includes interviews with the drummer and the sound engineer. A detailed analysis of the music played – and its relevance to subsequent popular music. The early lives and careers of the quartet – where they were in 1956. Relevant social and economic factors which meant that a massive audience of young people were keenly looking for a new kind of music they could call their own. The “reunions” of surviving members of the quartet. The emergence of the tapes, first on bootleg and then on legitimate CDs. The genesis of the stage show and its reception – the enduring appeal of the music.

The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll

Author : Peter Guralnick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681888963
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll written by Peter Guralnick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the history of Sun Records, the label that started Rock n’ Roll, told through 70 of its iconic recordings. In Memphis, Tennessee, in the 1950s, there was hard-edged blues playing on Beale Street, and hillbilly boogie on the outskirts of town. But at Sam Phillips’ Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there was something different going on – a whole lotta shakin’, rockin’, and rollin’. This is where rock ’n’ roll was born. Sun Records: the company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins. The label that brought the world, “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On,” “Breathless,” “I Walk the Line,” “Mystery Train,” “Good Rockin’ Tonight.” The Birth of Rock ’n’ Roll: 70 Years of Sun Records is the official history of this legendary label, and looks at its story in a unique way: through the lens of 70 of its most iconic recordings. From the early days with primal blues artists like Howlin’ Wolf and B.B. King to long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis, you will see how the label was shaped and how it redefined American music. Accompanying the recordings is the label’s origin story and a look at the mission of the label today, as well as “Sun Spot” sidebars—a fascinating dive into subjects such as how the iconic logo was created, the legendary Million Dollar Quartet sessions, and how the song “Harper Valley, PTA” funded the purchase of the label. Written by two of the most acclaimed music writers of our time, Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott, and featuring hundreds of rare images from the Sun archives as well as a foreword by music legend Jerry Lee Lewis, this is a one-of-a-kind book for anyone who wants to know where it all started.

Murder For Two

Author : Kellen Blair
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
ISBN 13 : 0573708347
Total Pages : 77 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (737 download)

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Download or read book Murder For Two written by Kellen Blair and published by Concord Theatricals. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Officer Marcus Moscowicz is a small town policeman with dreams of making it to detective. One fateful night, shots ring out at the surprise birthday party of Great American Novelist Arthur Whitney and the writer is killed…fatally. With the nearest detective an hour away, Marcus jumps at the chance to prove his sleuthing skills—with the help of his silent partner, Lou. But whodunit? Did Dahlia Whitney, Arthur's scene-stealing wife, give him a big finish? Is Barrette Lewis, the prima ballerina, the prime suspect? Did Dr. Griff, the overly-friendly psychiatrist, make a frenemy? Marcus has only a short amount of time to find the killer and make his name before the real detective arrives… and the ice cream melts!

Before Elvis

Author : Larry Birnbaum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810886383
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Before Elvis written by Larry Birnbaum and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the emergence of Bill Haley and Elvis Presley. Unlike other histories of rock, Before Elvis offers a far broader and deeper analysis of the influences on rock music. Dispelling common misconceptions, it examines rock's origins in hokum songs and big-band boogies as well as Delta blues, detailing the embrace by white artists of African-American styles long before rock 'n' roll appeared. This unique study ranges far and wide, highlighting not only the contributions of obscure but key precursors like Hardrock Gunter and Sam Theard but also the influence of celebrity performers like Gene Autry and Ella Fitzgerald. Too often, rock historians treat the genesis of rock 'n' roll as a bolt from the blue, an overnight revolution provoked by the bland pop music that immediately preceded it and created through the white appropriation of music till then played only by and for black audiences. In Before Elvis, Birnbaum daringly argues a more complicated history of rock's evolution from a heady mix of ragtime, boogie-woogie, swing, country music, mainstream pop, and rhythm-and-blues--a melange that influenced one another along the way, from the absorption of blues and boogies into jazz and pop to the integration of country and Caribbean music into rhythm-and-blues. Written in an easy style, Before Elvis presents a bold argument about rock's origins and required reading for fans and scholars of rock 'n' roll history.

Milky Peaks

Author : Seiriol Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1913609049
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Milky Peaks written by Seiriol Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled in the heart of Snowdonia, the small town of Milky Peaks is nominated for 'Britain's Best Town'. However, the award brings with it a dark, insidious right-wing agenda, threatening the heart and soul of the town. Can the community club together to save the identity of their beloved Milky Peaks?

Bat Boy

Author : Laurence O'Keefe
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822218340
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Bat Boy written by Laurence O'Keefe and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a story in the Weekly World News, this is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia.

Buyer & Cellar

Author : Jonathan Tolins
Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 1626813981
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Buyer & Cellar written by Jonathan Tolins and published by Diversion Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original script of the award-winning off-Broadway play—“irresistibly entertaining [and] surprisingly moving” (Paul Rudnick). Alex More has a story to tell. A struggling actor in LA, he takes a job working in the Malibu basement of a beloved megastar. One day, the Lady Herself comes downstairs to play. It feels like real bonding in the basement—but will their relationship ever make it upstairs? A winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show, Buyer & Cellar is an outrageous comedy about the price of fame, the cost of things, and the oddest of odd jobs. “Jonathan Tolins has concocted an irresistible one-man play from the most peculiar of fictitious premises . . . This seriously funny slice of absurdist whimsy creates the illusion of a stage filled with multiple people, all of them with their own droll point of view.” —The New York Times “A gorgeous play: funny and beautifully observed and richly insightful.” —Moisés Kaufman “Tolins’s writing is smart, sharp, and hilarious—and he paints a vivid picture that even a perfectionist like Barbra would have to applaud.” —James Lapine

Hank Williams

Author : Randal Myler
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780822219859
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Hank Williams written by Randal Myler and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY is the spectacular musical biography of the legendary singer-songwriter frequently mentioned alongside Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Duke Ellington, Elvis and Bob Dylan as one of the great innovators of Ame

Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story

Author : Rick Bragg
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062078232
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story written by Rick Bragg and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis—and gets his own story, from the source, for the very first time. A monumental figure on the American landscape, Jerry Lee Lewis spent his childhood raising hell in Ferriday, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi; galvanized the world with hit records like “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” and “Great Balls of Fire,” that gave rock and roll its devil’s edge; caused riots and boycotts with his incendiary performances; nearly scuttled his career by marrying his thirteen-year-old second cousin—his third wife of seven; ran a decades-long marathon of drugs, drinking, and women; nearly met his maker, twice; suffered the deaths of two sons and two wives, and the indignity of an IRS raid that left him with nothing but the broken-down piano he started with; performed with everyone from Elvis Presley to Keith Richards to Bruce Springsteen to Kid Rock—and survived it all to be hailed as “one of the most creative and important figures in American popular culture and a paradigm of the Southern experience.” Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story is the Killer’s life as he lived it, and as he shared it over two years with our greatest bard of Southern life: Rick Bragg. Rich with Lewis’s own words, framed by Bragg’s richly atmospheric narrative, , this is the last great untold rock-and-roll story, come to life on the page.

Uncle Jed's Barber Shop

Author : Margaree King Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442443642
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Uncle Jed's Barber Shop written by Margaree King Mitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coretta Scott King Award winner A young girl’s beloved uncle is a talented barber without a shop who never gives up on his dream in this richly illustrated, stirring picture book. Everyone has a favorite relative. For Sarah Jean, it’s her Uncle Jed. Living in the segregated South of the 1920s, where most people are sharecroppers, Uncle Jed is the only black barber in the county and has to travel all over the county to cut his customers’ hair. He lives for the day when he could open his very own barbershop. But there are a lot of setbacks along the way. Will Uncle Jed ever be able to open a shiny new shop?

Shatter Me

Author : Tahereh Mafi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062085514
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Shatter Me written by Tahereh Mafi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping first installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me series. One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill. No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. An opportunity for a deadly weapon. Juliette has never fought for herself before. But when she’s reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had. And don’t miss Defy Me, the shocking fifth book in the Shatter Me series!

Honkers and Shouters

Author : Arnold Shaw
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780020617402
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Honkers and Shouters written by Arnold Shaw and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Johnny Cash

Author : Michael Streissguth
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306815915
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Johnny Cash written by Michael Streissguth and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To millions, he was the rebellious Man in Black, the unabashed patriot, the redeemed Christian-the king of country music. But Johnny Cash (1932-2003) was also an uncertain country boy whose dreams were born in the cotton fields of Arkansas and who struggled his entire life with a guilt-ridden childhood, addictions, and self-doubt. Johnny Cash: The Biography explores many often overlooked aspects of the legend's life and career, uncovering the origins of his songwriting and trademark boom-chicka-boom rhythm and delving into the details of his personal life, including his drug dependency, which dogged him long after many thought he'd beaten it. Scrupulously researched, passionately told, Johnny Cash: The Biography is the unforgettable portrait of an enduring American icon.

Harrington Street

Author : Jerry Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385313537
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Harrington Street written by Jerry Garcia and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural icon and rock musician offers a look at his early history on Harrington Street in San Francisco

Eleanor's Very Merry Christmas Wish

Author : Denise McGowan Tracy
Publisher : Koehler Books
ISBN 13 : 9781646633029
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Eleanor's Very Merry Christmas Wish written by Denise McGowan Tracy and published by Koehler Books. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the North Pole-a magical place full of happiness, friendship and love-home to a rag doll named Eleanor. Surrounded by Santa, Mrs. Claus, Clara and the elves, Eleanor understands the importance of family and home which is why she has a very merry Christmas wish of her own. With the help of all of her North Pole family, Eleanor learns that wishing alone is simply not enough to truly make your dreams come true.

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Vol 1

Author : ANDREW. HICKEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780244548520
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Vol 1 written by ANDREW. HICKEY and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-28 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and Britpop. Looking at five hundred representative songs, he tells the story of the musicians who made those records, the society that produced them, and the music they were making. Volume one looks at fifty songs from the origins of rock and roll, starting in 1938 with Charlie Christian's first recording session, and ending in 1956. Along the way, it looks at Louis Jordan, LaVern Baker, the Ink Spots, Fats Domino, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jackie Brenston, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and many more of the progenitors of rock and roll.

Behind the Man in Black

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578547800
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Man in Black written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WS Holland shares his nearly four decade career as the only drummer for Johnny Cash