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The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley and the
In early 1955, Colonel Tom Parker (the manager of the number-one country music star of the day) heard that an unknown teenager from Memphis had just drawn a crowd of...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...
Bobby Womack My Story 1944-2014
Bobby Womack is a true legend, a phenomenally gifted musician with 40 albums and 30 million record sales to his name. He wrote the classic tracks 'It's All Over Now'...
Louis Armstrong: An Extraordinary Life
Perhaps America's greatest musical performer, Louis Armstrong was a character of epic proportions - married four times, with countless romantic involvements in and around his marriages, a life-long advocate of...
Highway 61 Resurfaced
It all starts when Southern Belle Lollie Woolfolk sashays into Rick Shannon's office at Rockin' Vestigations in Vicksburg. She hires him to find the grandfather she never met, one-time blues...
Lady Sings the Blues
The bluesy, gutsy, no-holds-barred memoir of jazz legend Billie Holiday \"I've been told that no one sings the word 'hunger' like I do. Or the word 'love'.\" Lady Sings the...
B.B. King: There Is Always One More Time
The ELives in MusicE series meshes biography with discography. This debut title profiles the legendary King of Blues B.B. King. An opening essay charts his life from childhood in the...