Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom

Labor of Love Tyler Smith Like Robert Palmer's superb "Deep Blues," Guralnick's extensive look back at the roots of R&B and soul music combines criticism, biographical profiles and social history into one rich, printed tapestry. Meticulously researched, the book shows its author's deep love of the music without sacrificing objectivity.Guralnick provides plenty of background on the "race music" that spawned R&B and the great soul music of the sixties and ea. If you love music,then anything by Guralnick is the source. RB I own every Guralnick music book in print and I don't lend them out. I'll buy a copy for a friend but never give up custody of my copy. He's that good. If you love reading about the icons of R&R,R&B etc you have found your author. From Elvis to Sam Cooke to his work on different genres you will put the book down feeling satisfied. He writes like an unbiased observer; never judgmental nor sanguine about his subject. Just the 'way i. "Digital Content Unavailable - Don't Waste Your Money" according to Andy D.. The digital content is completely unavailable. I've tried it on my tablet, phone, the cloud reader, and on the PC app. What a waste of money - and time. I could have purchased a used paper back copy but thought the additional digital content would enhance my understanding of the topic. What a disappointment. Don't waste your time.

Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal "A definitive chronicle of one of the great creative periods in American pop history," said LJ's reviewer of this 1986 volume, which tracks the rise and fall of a collaboration of white and black musicians, songwriters, and singers from the 1950s to its peak and disintegration a decade later.

Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that inspired a generation and forever changed the sound of American music.. A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music

His books include: the prize-winning two-volume Elvis Presley biography Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; the acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway, and Feel Like Going Home; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; and the novel Nighthawk Blues. Peter Gura