Ghosts Behind the Sun
Splendor, Engima & Death
ISBN-13: 9781840681819
Contributor(s): Tav Falco
Subject: Music
Publisher Imprint: Creation
Publication Date: 05-01-2012
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£17.95
About the book
A sprawling study of Memphis beginning with a Civil War massacre, the Yellow Fever epidemic and the grisly murders of the Harp Brothers. Falco traces these legends to an equally brutal twentieth century underworld - Beale Street kingpin Jim Canaan, Edward Crump's political machine and the Dixie Mafia. Also included are revelatory dialogues concerning the city's many music legends, from rockabilly icons Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Charlie Feathers to more underground figures such as Jim Dickinson and country blues wailer Jessie Mae Hemphill.