Rythm Oil
A Journey Through the Music of the American South
Stanley Booth(Author)
Da Capo Press Inc
Published on 30. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-306-80979-8 (ISBN)
Description
Here are Stanley Booth's acclaimed writings about the South and the music that emanates from it. Rythm Oil--you don't have to know how to spell "rhythm" to have it in your body and soul--is a potion sold on Beale Street in Memphis. The home of Sun Records, B. B. King, Elvis Presley, Howlin' Wolf, and Jerry Lee Lewis, Memphis is also the home of fantastic stories and broke-down dreams. As Booth makes his way from Memphis to the Mississippi Delta to the depths of the Georgia woods exploring the sounds, the music, and the culture of the American South, "he has produced some of the most gracefully written, thoughtful, and thought-stirring musings on the characters--the famous and the forgotten, the infamous and the unknown--who command the kingdom or drift through the shadowland of the South's rich-chorded patrimony" (Nick Tosches, Los Angeles Times).
Reviews / Votes
No Depression, 2/22 "This is a ridiculously good book of music writing-though, that's an injustice, it's a book about soul, and life, and America as much or more as it is about 'just' music."More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Hachette Books
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
28 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
459 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-80979-8 (9780306809798)
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Person
Stanley Booth's work has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and many other publications. He lives on the Georgia coast, just south of Savannah.