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It Came From Memphis EXPANDED EDITION by Robert Gordon

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It Came From Memphis EXPANDED EDITION by Robert GordonThe updated and revised edition 25th Anniversary edition of It Came From Memphis by Robert Gordon features more than 80 new photos and a new layout, an updated text featuring more voices, a new foreword, afterword and updated buying recommendations from the author. "Superb." The New York Times "Essential document of the Weird Memphis Underground." Goner Records This collection is a distinctly American story with social and cultural ramifications we

The updated and revised edition 25th Anniversary edition of  It Came From Memphis by Robert Gordon features more than 80 new photos and a new layout, an updated text featuring more  voices, a new foreword, afterword and updated buying recommendations from the author. 



"Superb." —The New York Times  

"Essential document of the Weird Memphis Underground." —Goner Records
 
“This collection is a distinctly American story with social and cultural ramifications we can only begin to calibrate, so deeply ingrained as they are in the national character.” —The Washington Post Book World 
 


Get them both for so much Memphis you'll be tasting Barbecue and quoting Jim Dickinson for days!


Vienna in the 1880s. Paris in the 1920s. Memphis in the 1950s. These are the paradigm shifts of modern culture. Memphis then was like Seattle with grunge or Brooklyn with hip-hop—except the change was more than musical: Underground Memphis embraced black American culture when dominant society simply ignored or abhorred it. The effect rocked the world. Like no other music history, It Came From Memphis dishes its tuneful tale with a full context of social issues. From institutional racism to cowboy movies, from manic disc jockeys to Quaalude motorcycle gangs, this story is as unvarnished a history of rock and roll as ever has been written. Stars pass through— Elvis, Aretha, Jerry Lee—but the emphasis is more on the singular achievements of artists like Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit. The Memphis aesthetic is to invert expectations: artists encounter imperfection with a joyous enthusiasm, embracing mistakes and doing it all wrong by forging their own paths to get it exactly right, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. A storyteller’s storyteller, Robert Gordon puts you in the shotgun seat, riding with the old coots and the young rebels as they pass a bottle and a blunt. Memphis changed the world, this book might change you.

"If you haven’t read this book, do it now." – Rolling Stone

“Gordon creates a vivid portrait of the place and the music—what he calls its simplicity, its eccentricity, its soul—through a freewheeling, anecdotal narrative that mixes the fervor of a fan, the flair of a storyteller and the clear-eyed perspective of a critic.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

BIO:
Robert Gordon is a writer and a filmmaker, a Grammy winner and an Emmy winner. He’s a native Memphian who has been exporting the city’s authentic weirdness since long before his first book, It Came From Memphis (1995). He’s been nominated for six Grammys; his win was for the liner notes to the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His Emmy was for Best of Enemies, the 2015 documentary about Gore Vidal, William Buckley, and the demise of civil discourse in America. He’s not the rockabilly singer, he’s not author of Deep Blues, and he’s not the university in Scotland. He lives in Memphis. TheRobertGordon.com
 




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