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The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, by Peter Guralnick - Amazon Sales Rank: #15445 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-10
- Released on: 2015-11-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.63" h x 1.63" w x 6.25" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 784 pages
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- description of the birth of rock and roll with Sam Phillips in the 1950s Memphis.
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, by Peter Guralnick Review New York Times Bestseller One of The Washington Post's Notable Nonfiction Books of 2015"Beautiful and meticulous... Mr. Guralnick is the perfect man to tell this story."―Dwight Garner, New York Times"Definitive...With Presley's story at its core, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll is in some ways the third volume [to] Guralnick's double-volume Elvis bio. What makes it more illuminating and arguably truer is seeing Elvis in the broader context of Phillips' career, [which was] in many ways a mission to transform [t]his nation's history of bigotry....You may come away born again."―Rolling Stone"A book so thoroughly steeped in its subject that it is almost an autobiography in the third person.... 'This is a book written out of admiration and love,' Guralnick states frankly in an author's note. As such, it honors Sam Phillips elegantly, by devoting itself to the one subject Phillips seemed to admire and love as much as he did music: Sam Phillips himself."―David Hajdu, New York Times Book Review"Lovingly crafted.... With crisp prose and meticulous detail, Guralnick gives Phillips the same epic treatment he previously employed in acclaimed biographies of Sam Cooke and Elvis Presley.... An astonishing feat.... It is difficult to imagine a more complete or poetic account of his life than this remarkable volume.... 'I didn't set out to revolutionize the world,' Phillips once told Guralnick in a moment of humility, but in this book [the author] convincingly argues that Phillips did just that."―Charles Hughes, The Washington Post"Peter Guralnick isn't just a music writer or a biographer--he's one of the essential chroniclers of American popular culture, and his work illuminates some of the crucial components of our national identity: race, religion, fame, and the big business of having fun, among others. In this epic biography of Sam Phillips, Guralnick bears witness to the birth of rock and roll and the cultural revolution it inspired. It's not only an unforgettable portrait of an eccentric visionary, it's a testament to the power of ordinary people to change the world with nothing more than a beautiful idea and a handful of songs."―Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers"When Elvis Presley stepped into a Memphis recording studio with producer Sam Phillips in 1954, they defined rock 'n' roll as we know it. Peter Guralnick already gave us Elvis's story in two landmark books. He now returns with a brilliant, intensely human look at Phillips, the endlessly fascinating figure who also recorded Johnny Cash, B.B King, Howlin' Wolf, and Jerry Lee Lewis. It's a bold, insightful work that tells us in novelistic detail about the obsessions and struggles of the man who presided over the uneasy birth of rock 'n' roll."―Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny Cash"Sam Phillips is an epic biography, at once sweeping and personal, in which the gifted writer Peter Guralnick captures the voice and life of a transformational figure in American music."―Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins"Rigorously researched.... Definitive."―Will Hermes, Rolling Stone"A monumental biography of the larger-than-life loner who fought for the acceptance of black music and discovered an extraordinary group of poor, country-boy singers whose records would transform American popular culture.... A wonderful story that brings us deep into that moment when America made race music its own and gave rise to the rock sound now heard around the world."―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"Guralnick wrote definitive biographies of Elvis and now does the same for Phillips, a visionary who gave voice to a rich and diverse culture long marginalized.... Essential reading for music fans."―Ben Segedin, Booklist (starred review)"Epic, elegant and crisply told."―Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., BookPage"Acclaimed music historian Guralnick has written landmark accounts of Elvis and the history of American roots music, and he now turns his considerable skills to the life of Sun Records producer Sam Phillips in this delightful and comprehensive volume. Guralnick energetically tells the must-read tale of a Southern boy intent on enacting his vision of freedom and justice through music."―Publishers Weekly (starred review)"The book is a labor of love. Guralnick is passionate about the music, but he doesn't let his passion overinflate his prose, and he seems to know everything about everyone who was part of the Southern music world... It's natural for us to take events that were to a significant extent the product of guesswork, accident, short-term opportunism and good luck...and shape them into a heroic narrative....But a legend is just one of the forms that history takes -- which is why it's good to have Guralnick's book."―Louis Menand, The New Yorker"A deeply intimate portrait... An altogether profound and revelatory experience."―Bob Mehr, The Commercial Appeal"Peter Guralnick tells it like it was. If you want to dig into the truth and read about what really went down in Memphis in the '50s, this is the definitive book."―Lucinda Williams"Mr. Guralnick has conjured the magic of Elvis in the Sun studio as Presley's biographer, but his knowing Sam Phillips makes this the superior version... Mr. Guralnick takes you right to the room, and rather than gliding past a scene that has been written about many times, he immerses himself comfortably in it and revives its original intensity....[He] has produced the gold-standard Presley bio and now a complete portrait of his inspiration. Mr. Guralnick, the historian, writer and fan, has captured what was different, real and raw about a great artist."―Preston Lauterbach, Wall Street Journal" With this book, Peter Guralnick brings popular music and the man who gave us so much of it, Sam Phillips, to the very centre of American social history. And he does it quite brilliantly."―Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments"Guralnick's book is comprehensive, warm, thorough, captivating, and compulsively readable....It may just be the best music book of 2015."―Henry Carrigan, No Depression"A rollicking good time. Sometimes reading can rattle the cage and stomp the floor, and no one rattled the cages more than Sam Phillips."―Memphis Flyer"A cornerstone addition to Guralnick's unmatched backlist of music history and biography."―Shelf Awareness" A deeply intimate portrait that never veers into hagiography....For Guralnick and for the reader, the book becomes the quintessential Phillips production: an altogether profound and revelatory experience."―Memphis Commercial Appeal "A sprawling, engaging biography stuffed with stories and tidbits."―Knoxville News"Much-anticipated and long-awaited, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, is as much a labor of love for Peter Guralnick as Sun Records was to Sam Phillips. And that's saying something."―Now Dig This"Thoroughgoing and thoroughly satisfying.... Guralnick has injected enough helium and momentum into the material to get it airborne and moving stately forward."―Peter Lewis, Christian Science Monitor"Superb.... No one could tell Sam's story -- a complex mixture of music business reportage and personal narrative -- with the level of detail and affection that Guralnick brings to these 700-plus pages. Sam Phillips may well be the capstone to Guralnick's career.... This book gives Phillips and his judgments their due. Bridging American music's racial divide and transforming its pop, he was as much an original as the artists he nurtured."―USA Today"If his two-volume life of Elvis Presley, biography of Sam Cooke, Dream Boogie, and trilogy on southern roots music haven't convinced you that Peter Guralnick is our finest chronicler of American music, [this] should do the trick....Magisterial yet lively....it's a book that places Guralnick in some pretty heady company. Arguably, he is to music what Robert Caro is to politics: a dogged researcher and graceful writer who has a genuine feel for his subjects and the knowledge to place them in a larger context.... A wonderfully nuanced and shaded portrait."―Best Classic Bands"Phillips's stories and philosophies light up these pages....By the book's end, the weight of Guralnick's mission comes into full view. Phillips had advised him early on, "It ain't for you to put me in a good light. Just put me in the focus I'm supposed to be in." And that's exactly what Guralnick has done. His subject would no doubt be proud that he got it right."―Boston Globe"Guralnick's biography of Sam Phillips is a key work of Americana."―Downbeat "The story of Sam Phillips is not just a musical journey; it's a portrait of a polymath, an incredibly driven Southern eccentric....Guralnick clearly delights in telling Phillips's tale. He is known for being an excellent and empathetic biographer: straightforward, never florid. ...Forty pages before the end of this tome, the author comes uncharacteristically clean. "Hell, why not just come out and say it? I loved Sam." By that point, so do we."―MacLean's"Guralnick paints a detailed and sympathetic picture of Phillips as a relentless visionary,a talker, a loving but imperfect family man and a perfectionist who relished imperfections that could make recordings special."―Michael Hill, Associated Press"Just as the two magisterial volumes of Guralnick's Presley bio paint a much more nuanced picture of Presley, The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll captures the complexity of the colorful Phillips....The author loves his subject and loves writing about him.... A book that can stand with his best, and that is [both] entertaining and lively....For that rock-and-roll fans should be eternally grateful."―Philadelphia Inquirer
About the Author Peter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include the prize-winning Elvis Presley two-part biography Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway and Feel Like Going Home; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; the novel Nighthawk Blues; and Dream Boogie, a biography of Sam Cooke. He splits his time between Nashville and Massachusetts.
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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful. THEE BOOK ON SAM PHILLIPS. By Stuart Jefferson "I was 16 years old. We drove down Beale Street in the middle of the night and it was rockin'". Sam Phillips."It ain't for you to put me in a good light. Man, I don't give a damn if you say one good thing about me." Sam Phillips to Peter Guralinick.This book, if it isn't the definitive book on Sam Phillips, is certainly one of the best books ever written about him. The author, Peter Guralnick, has written a number of other very fine, in-depth books like "Last Train To Memphis" "Lost Highway", "Feel Like Going Home", "Sweet Soul Music" , "Dream Boogie", and others, all having his talent for informative, interesting, and sometimes exhaustive research on the subjects (Elvis, soul music, blues, Sam Cooke, etc.), and this book is no different. I was lucky enough to be loaned an advance copy of this book (and another music oral biography) several days prior to it's release if anyone is wondering how I read this thick tome in less than one day. But if you're a fan of Phillips' importance to 20th Century music you too will gobble this book up."I knew the physical separation of the races--but I knew the integration of their souls." Sam Phillips, when he opened Sun Studios.Guralnick has crossed paths with Phillips for 25 years or so, which gives him a closer and better understanding and insights of who Phillips was early on, and who he is as we know him today, with his great contributions to music. Beginning with Phillips' early life as a boy and up through his death, Guralnick has painted a (much needed) portrait with many layers coming to light of Phillips' life, as a boy in the Depression era, his early important influences (a blind sharecropper, a deaf aunt, and a female owner of a whorehouse in the Depression era) , the people who crossed his path (both in and out of music), and of course, the artists and music he envisioned and recorded (and sometimes sold to other labels for much needed money) in his studio.The book is laid out in chronological style which gives Phillips' story a more straightforward, no nonsense, "big picture" feel as you read about his life, both in and out of music. The various period photos (like Phillips as an 8 year old, fishing with his young son in a rowboat, standing with Elvis and Phillips' Sun Records secretary Marion in 1956, Phillips with his grown son working together in the studio, or vocal group The Prisonaires in the studio with pin-up photos on the wall, or Cavalry Trooper Pvt. Chester Arthur Burnett (Howlin' Wolf) cleaning a horse hoof in 1941, Billy Riley on stage--rockin', Jerry Lee Lewis (at the piano) Boots Randolph and Philips in the studio) also help tell Phillips' story. Of course the music is dealt with at some length, and the many artists he recorded (like Howlin' Wolf, Rufus Thomas, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Sonny Burgess, B. B. King, Roscoe Gordon, and a number of others maybe lesser known) are pretty much accounted for in the book. There's a Bibliography, a Discography section, and (thankfully) an Index, especially useful in a book of this type with so many people and places across Phillips' life.Never before has there been such an accurate, in-depth book on Sam Phillips. And it took someone like Guralnick to flesh out this story in an accurate, intelligent, informative and interesting way. And with a person as complex as Phillips, Gurlanick's clear, concise style makes for good reading. If there's anyone who isn't familiar with Phillips' work, this book will tell you all you need to know. And I'm pretty sure everyone's heard at least a few artists/songs from Sun Studios. On that point, there's a 2 CD set (Yep Roc) of Phillips' work that's been released around the release date for this book, but there are better sets with better sound, so look around if you want to hear the real-deal proof of Phillips' magic. After reading this book you'll come away with a better understanding of a man who did things his way--in life and in the studio. This has to be one of the best books of it's type this year. Quite possibly he did invent rock 'n' roll. And if he didn't, he was darn close to it's birth.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Good Rockin' Tonight! By true britty AUDIOBOOK VERSION This is the book on Sam Phillips, Sun Records, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and on and on that I've been waiting for. I spent an Audible credit for this one and I would've spent a hundred.Peter Guralnick is best known for his two bios on Elvis Presley--which are incredible reads on the rise (what goes up) and fall (must come down) of the '50s rock 'n' roll legend. Get em.But also get this one. In fact, get this one first. As Guralnick writes in the author intro, he was invested in the Elvis and the Sam Cooke books, but he was personally involved in the Sam Phillips bio because he knew the producer for 25 years. All Sam asked Guralnick to do when writing his life's story was to "tell the truth."And it's a remarkable truth and remarkably well told. Sam Phillips opened a recording studio in Memphis at just the right moment, in 1950, right before the rock 'n' roll explosion. He grew up in the South with ears that heard genius blues musicians where others' eyes only saw black men and women. Memphis Recording Service (later renamed Sun Studio) opened its doors to these blues masters, who were sometimes veteran guitar pickers but as often as not raw young talents still trying to find their sound.Howlin' Wolf, Ike Turner and B.B. King recorded at the Memphis studio. Scads more. (BTW, you can pick up a compilation album of Sun Records' blues artists, which you might want to have playing as you roll through this book. You can also get Elvis and Cash albums devoted to their Sun work. Probably for some others as well--Perkins, Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis--but I haven't checked.) One priceless tidbit about B.B. King that Guralnick adds is that when B.B. recorded with Sam he was a young guitarist and hadn't yet perfected the art of playing his guitar and singing at the same time. Even legends have to start at the beginning.Guralnick spends a good chunk of the early chapters on the blues. And that's a great thing because popular history tends to shove that story aside to get to 1954 when Elvis Presley, a greasy-haired kid from every wrong side of every wrong track, worked up the nerve to pester Mr. Phillips for a recording session.Sam put him together with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, who were anything but virtuosos. That first session has become mythic it's been talked about so much. Guralnick blows away the cobwebs. He takes us back into the stuffy room for the all-nighter that was going nowhere until, in an off moment, Elvis started horsing around with an Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup tune, "That's Alright (Mama)."Sam heard something in that cut up nobody else would've. This is what made him a genius producer and a central figure in the genesis of '50s rock 'n' roll. And this is what makes Guralnick's book so damn good: that the author is able to expose how chancy a recording session is, how uncertain the creative act, and how a really good producer can help an artist throw out the common and elevate the original.Musicians, recording engineers, music producers and music buffs will want to delve in this book and read between the lines. Even though this is a book about outdated recording technology and "ancient" music, it's also about finding diamonds in the coarsest stone. Guralnick gives example after example. Like when Johnny Cash wanted to chuck his lead guitarist. Luther Perkins struggled to pick out every note. Cash was getting frustrated. But Sam said, no, you want to keep Luther because it's his inexperience that is helping to create that fresh boom chicka boom sound.Sam took chances on artists who didn't have money, who didn't have looks (Elvis wasn't as pretty then as he'd become later), who didn't already have fan bases. They weren't always great musicians and their songwriting needed some arranging. But he created a space in his studio where talent could be developed and could take its time--though these artists were itching to run.And, yeah, Guralnick also tells the personal side of Sam's story. You get to know him about as well as Guralnick did, as well as you can from a book. But you'll want to get this book for the magic, and the magic is in the music.
27 of 33 people found the following review helpful. Dubious premise By H.C. Carey This books starts off very strong with an account of Phillips as a poor but idealistic young man, equal parts Dale Carnegie and Walt Whitman. It's very evocative of the late 40s early 50s. It paints a vivd picture of Phillips as a guy with an obsessive and unique artistic vision. It trails off into a long series of anecdotes as Phillips becomes a wealthy and directionless alcoholic and moral hypocrite, sort of a disagreeable rich blowhard and jerk.The larger problem here is the idea of Phillips as a racial visionary, a real believer in racial justice. There's just no evidence at all for that. Phillips is eager to record African American early on, and he likes the music and he seems not to have been a bigot personally. But once he gets Elvis that's pretty much the end of recording black people--they just completely drop out of Guralnick's narrative. While the civil rights movement is going on Phillips is obsessing about Jerry lee Lewis and Johnny Cash: Sun effectively becomes an all white label. He recorded great music and he had a knack for getting intense performances out of people, but the book is based heavily on the premise that we should care because Phillips is a racial visionary. But he's only recording African Americans early on, for a brief period, and you can't escape the suspicion that he was primarily motivated by the fact that there was an untapped market, rather than a larger vision of social justice.You have to pay attention to catch it, but all the quotes from Phillips about his commitment to racial justice come well after the fact, when he is being asked to look back nostalgically and he is clearly inflating the social significance of his work. There was surely a lot of cross-cultural borrowing going on, but several of Johnny Cash's early hits draw on really retrograde racial ideas (Hey Porter! and Get Rhythm). In other words, a vision of racial equality does not seem to have been the guiding principle.So I'd say the book fails to make it case. Phillips comes off as not a bigot, but not really committed to racial justice in any way. Ok fine, but again, that's the premise Guralnick starts with, the idea that Phillips is an important figure in the history of race relations. Not only was I unconvinced, I think the book really badly overstates the case.Guralnick is one of those writers who wants rock and roll to be in some sense revolutionary, a stale case that's increasingly hard to make. If you imagine Great Balls of Fire as being in some way "about" or connected to racial equality, then you can lard the song with heightened significance that really, it can't bear. That's pretty much the problem with the book.
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