Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by Peter Guralnick
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll by Peter Guralnick
The music that Sam Phillips shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ike Turner, and Johnny Cash introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices unabashedly proclaiming the primacy of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical world.
With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over Peter Guralnick's twenty-five-year acquaintance with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary sun Records artists, SAM PHILLIPS: THE MAN WHO INVENTED ROCK 'N' ROLL gives us an ardent, intimate, and unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as such other homegrown creative spirits as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Thomas Edison.
Little, Brown & Company, Hardcover, 2015
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