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Also by Robert Gordon:

Respect Yourself, November 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Lost Delta Found, August 2005
Hardcover
It Came From Memphis, November 2001
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IT CAME FROM MEMPHIS
By: Robert Gordon

Atria
November 2001
On Sale: October 30, 2001
336 pages
ISBN: 0743410459
EAN: 9780743410458
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Non-Fiction Biography

Robert Gordon begins where most chroniclers of the music world end and spins a magical fairy tale peopled with Delta bluesmen, a peanut vendor, a matinee cowboy, a professional wrestler, and a manic deejay. It Came From Memphis doesn't focus on Elvis, Al Green, or the Sun/Stax studios. Instead it creeps into the shadows cast by those institutions, concentrating on artists like Jim Dickinson and Alex Chilton, and bands like the MarKeys and Big Star. Gordon limns, with respect and the fascination born of true devotion, the story of white teenagers caught in the middle of an extraordinary confluence of music, entrepreneurship, to usher in an exciting new musical form. The result is a rock 'n' roll and Memphis -- its alma mater.

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