Feel Like Going Home

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Paperback back cover copy: "One of the finest books ever to appear on the subject of American musicians" (Jon Landau, <i>The Boston Phoenix</i>), this profiles the men who played--indeed created--the blues and early rock 'n' roll: Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, Skip James, Robert Pete Williams, Howlin' Wolf, ,Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Rich, and such colleagues as Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Elvis Presley, and LIttle Richard. In writing about these lives, Peter Guralnick vividly re-creates the Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues; the northern cities where, later, they were rediscovered; and the studios in Memphis where the blues tradition was carried forward into rockabilly and rock 'n' roll. ""The most emotionally and intellectually satisfying rock book yet to appear." --Robert Christgau, <i>The Village Voice</i> "A remarkable book." -- Dave March, <i>Creem</i> "First-class reading." --<i>Blues World</i> "Peter Guralnick is a national resource. No one writes so penetratingly as he about so wide a range of our indigenous music." -- Nat Hentoff __________________________ FEEL LIKE GOING HOME celebrates the building blocks of blues and early rock 'n' roll, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Chess record label. "Brings it back alive better than any book of its kind ever published".--Charles Shaar Murray, NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS. 80 photos.