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	Peter Guralnick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Peter Guralnick (born December 15, 1943 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American music critic, author, screenwriter, and historian of American popular music.
		Peter Guralnick graduated from Boston University in 1971 with a master's degree in creative writing.
		Guralnick was hired to write the script for the AandE television documentary, Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll narrated by Billy Bob Thornton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Guralnick (354 words)

	Peter Guralnick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Guralnick'S eipic biography of Elvis Presley (the second, final volume came out earlier this year) has been widely admired for what it is not: sensationalistic, speculative, or slapdash.
		Guralnick's "objectivity" is a kind of sleight of hand -- yes, he's giving us the truest portrait he can, but meanwhile he's negotiating the minds and voices of dozens of characters.
		For Guralnick -- always presenting himself in these books as the outsider, the white middle-class Northerner intruding on the lives of fls and Southern whites -- the lived "shared experience" of these musicians is the fulfillment of a promise he first heard in the music, the word made flesh.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/books/99/09/16/PETER_GURALNICK.html (1313 words)

	MetroActive Books \| Peter Guralnick
		The second volume in peter guralnick's meticulous chronicle of Elvis Presley's life comes at an ideal time, because a new generation of pop aficionados didn't live through either the hippie heyday that made the King seem obsolete or the grotesque spectacle of his late Vegas years.
		Guralnick never delves into the radically shifting pop landscape of the '60s and '70s and how Elvis was left behind by it.
		Guralnick is also surprisingly charitable to the Colonel, his manager, whom many blame for sabotaging Presley through his stubbornness, stinginess and buffoonery.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/03.01.99/guralnick-9907.html (962 words)

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		Peter Guralnick is one of America's foremost roots music authorities, and one of the best writers on roots musicians, particularly those that recorded their major work in the '50s and '60s.
		Guralnick combines the passion of a lifelong fan, the expertise of a scholar, and an ability to get inside both the music and the personal character of his subjects.
		Guralnick's scope does reflect his personal taste, and this accounts for why some Northern musicians are covered in depth (like Solomon Burke and Aretha Franklin), yet others that some would find worthy of inclusion in such a project, such as Curtis Mayfield, are excluded.
	www.mp3.com /Peter-Guralnick/artists/65838/biography.html (813 words)

	Salon.com people \| The blues according to Peter Guralnick
		In his earliest writing, Guralnick approached Elvis as primarily a blues singer and was somewhat dismissive of much of his work from the '60s and '70s.
		Guralnick points to the Leadbelly, Big Bill Broonzy and Howling Wolf LPs he first heard as a teenager as the genesis for his lifelong obsession with the blues.
		Guralnick has become close friends with some of the musicians he has written about, and I ask whether the role of the interviewer came naturally to him.
	www.salon.com /people/feature/2000/06/16/guralnick/index1.html (1067 words)

	Peter Guralnick's "Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guralnick's craftsmanship and devotion to detail are even more evident in Careless Love than in Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, his much-praised first volume of the story.
		Guralnick begins this half of Presley's tale in 1958, after Elvis was dispatched to Germany by the Army while at the height of his powers as an entertainer.
		And though it's obvious Guralnick loves Presley and his music (and the jolt of liberation it brought to young America in the 1950s), he does not shy from his subject's vanity, fear, or indulgences.
	www.providencephoenix.com /archive/books/99/01/07/ELVIS.html (1247 words)

	YEAR OF THE BLUES 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		PETER GURALNICK: Rosco Gordon had this lazy, rolling rhythm, kind of a very infectious beat that later translated into ska music and was extremely influential in the development of reggae.
		PETER GURALNICK: WDIA was the first fl staffed station in the country, called itself the mother station of the Negroes.
		PETER GURALNICK: I mean, radio was sort of like the wild west There were no set rules, and you had all these creative people involving themselves not just in sound, but in exploring a kind of world of, of music, that the world at large wasn’t, had not necessarily been exposed to before.
	www.yearoftheblues.org /radio/index.asp?pg=3&id={7F6C5A61-BE69-4B46-AB7A-821C729FFBDC}& (1245 words)

	'Careless Love: The Unmaking Of Elvis Presley' by Peter Guralnick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Guralnick took us back to those heady days of early rock ’n’ roll with “Last Train to Memphis” in 1994 and, like Elvis himself when he went off to serve in the Army, left us hanging for several years, wondering how it would all play out.
		Both Guralnick books are lush with detail, some of it page after page of reporting on deal-making, film and record contracts and dollar amounts, recountings of songs and singers in recording studios.
		Guralnick, in his prologue, writes that Elvis “constructed a shell to hide his aloneness, and it hardened on his back.” He calls Elvis’ “sad diminution” a tragedy but blames no one.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19990214review185.asp (1487 words)

	Peter Guralnick - Music Books - Randy's Rodeo
		Guralnick wears a shit-eating grin that belies, for once, his deep and abiding love for the music he writes about with such dispassionate accuracy.
		Guralnick grew up in Boston transfixed by blues and country, and he began writing about such music in 1964 at the tender age of 20.
		Peter Guralnick's first love was fiction, and he published a novel, Nighthawk Blues, in 1980; out-of-print for many years, it was reissued in 2003.
	www.randysrodeo.com /books/guralnick.php (1489 words)

	Feel Like Going Home : Portraits in Blues and Rock 'n' Roll: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Guralnick pledges in the epilogue to Feel Like Going Home that his writing will henceforth be "younger, less self-conscious and critical." Don't dwell too much on the author's oath, however: the prose here is hardly jaded and awkward.
		Guralnick also insists that the Beatles never paid tribute to, or publicized, their musical influences, while the Stones recorded songs by their favorite bluesmen and appeared onstage with them.
		Peter Guralnick begins this book with a tribute to early rock and roll and his adoration of it and then has chapters on mainly blues performers and then Sun Records and finally the final days of Chess Records.
	www.mysqlwebhosting.biz /stuff-0316332720.html (1739 words)

	Critical Praise: Peter Guralnick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guralnick's narrative is rendered with an intimate, restrained intensity eerily reminiscent of the plaintive tone of Presley's ballads, that tremulous yearning of America itself….
		In Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke, eminent rock/blues/soul biographer Peter Guralnick attempts to pierce the fog of myth and rumor that have surrounded Cooke since his untimely demise at the tender age of 33.
		Guralnick cleverly captures the extreme dynamics of Cooke's life, everything from his trek on the gospel road, the maneuverings of the record business, and the political and racial commotion that was a critical element to Cooke's fame.
	www.twbookmark.com /authors/14/113/critical_praise.html (1706 words)

	JS Online: Author says depression, not drugs, killed Elvis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Complicating Guralnick's task as a biographer is the fact Elvis Presley never sat down for an extensive interview in his life.
		Guralnick acknowledged that Presley's enormous popularity and presence may be slowly starting to recede.
		Other collections Guralnick recommends are "Suspicious Minds," which collects Presley's Memphis recording sessions of the late '60s and "His Hand In Mind," the singer's first full gospel album from 1960.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/feb00/elvis17021600.asp?format=print (552 words)

	Books: The King Has No Clothes (Weekly Alibi . 02-01-99)
		Until Peter Guralnick wrote Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Aron Presley in 1994, most of Presley's biographers were from within the King of Rock and Roll's "inner circle." Filled with personal debt, anger or awe for the king, their portrayals could not withstand tests of time or truth.
		But Guralnick's exploration of Elvis' childhood and rise to fame was notable for its factual rigorousness and its intimate appreciation of Presley's musical agenda.
		Guralnick treats every aspect of Presley's life--including his forays into spiritual mysticism and his growing dependency on prescription drugs--with dignity and critical distance.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-01-99/alibi_art2.html (538 words)

	Country Standard Time: Peter Guralnick on Elvis Presley
		Guralnick, whose most recent work is on a biography of Sam Cooke, had already established himself as a music writer before his work on Elvis, publishing "Feel Like Going Home" in 1971 and "Lost Highway" in 1976.
		Guralnick subsequently wrote Parker a letter in which he mentioned his research on Elvis.
		Because he was speaking to an audience predominantly comprising music journalists, Guralnick also went into detail concerning his research and interviewing techniques and his approach to writing.
	www.countrystandardtime.com /peterguralnickFEATURE.html (604 words)

	'Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke' by Peter Guralnick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Guralnick's biography of Sam Cooke starts small, with images of Cooke's early life in Chicago, but as he accumulates detail -- and he is a master of such accretion -- Cooke's brief life acquires gravity.
		And even though a reader might think ill of Cooke who seems to have been a genius (cad is too weak a term), one can't help marveling at the arc of his too-brief career.
		Guralnick calls this a "triumph," but Cooke's story is as full of sorrow as his voice was.
	pittsburgpost-gazette.com /pg/05289/588760.stm (684 words)

	Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick, Search Cheap Books, Discount Books, ISBN 0316332259
		Guralnick made a wise choice with the two-book format, because in Elvis' life there was a distinct "Rise and Fall." "Last Train to Memphis" is the rise: "Careless Love" is the fall.
		In each volume, Guralnick reveals much not just about Elvis, but about the people who were his family and closest friends and how their actions and relationships to him and to each other shaped Elvis into the man he became.
		Guralnick said it himself; that the rise to fame and the person were larger than life, and so too was the decline larger than life.
	www.comparebookprices.ca /book_detail/0316332259 (993 words)

	Gadfly Online. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But Guralnick tells it straight on, bringing to his latest chosen task the same meticulous research and earnest address that served him so well in the first volume, in his earlier genre study, Sweet Soul Music, and also in his wonderful portraits of blues and country musicians in Feel Like Going Home and Lost Highway.
		Guralnick himself refrains from comment, closing the episode from the perspective of Schilling and Sonny West, who had been included in the Oval Office visit at Elvis' request: "Sonny and Jerry never stopped to ponder the many strange things that had occurred on this day.
		But despite this omnipresent sycophancy and greed, Guralnick makes good on his claim that Elvis' biography is not simply the tale of a man betrayed by his friends.
	www.gadflyonline.com /archive/May99/archive-guralnick.html (1354 words)

	Country Standard Time: Peter Guralnick, January 1999
		Guralnick, 55, grew up in the Boston area (and still lives a short drive north - in Gloucester) and earned a master's degree in creative writing at Boston University in 1971, intending to teach and write fiction.
		Guralnick has written a number of critically-acclaimed books about American roots music since the publication of "Feel Like Going Home" in 1971, including "Lost Highway," "Searching For Robert Johnson," and "Sweet Soul Music," and has even on occasion returned to fiction, his original calling.
		Guralnick began his career as a writer of fiction, yet his success has come as a writer of non-fiction.
	members.aol.com /countryst/peterguralnickFEATURE.html (1051 words)

	Chad Dickerson’s blog » Blog Archive » Peter Guralnick: from Elvis to Sam Cooke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Peter Guralnick’s two-part biography of Elvis Presley (”Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley”; and “Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley“;) remains the most compelling work of non-fiction I have ever read (and perhaps the most compelling anything I have ever read).
		Taken together, the two volumes consist of nearly 1400 pages about the life of a man who was obsessively covered by the media of his time and endlessly chronicled after his death.
		Even if “Dream Boogie” merely hints at the greatness of Guralnick’s earlier Elvis work (and Charles Taylor’s review suggests that might be the case), it’s still a must-read for anyone who cares about music.
	www.chaddickerson.com /blog/2005/10/26/peter-guralnick-from-elvis-to-sam-cooke (328 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Last Train to Memphis: Rise of Elvis Presley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guralnick is a scrupulous biographer, now established as the definitive chronicler of the strange life and turbulent times of Elvis Presley; better still, his enthusiasm for Elvis' music shines through on every page of the text.
		Peter Guralnick captures the feel of the times and the excitement of elvis' rise to success with effortlessly readable prose.
		Guralnick manages to offer a portrait of Elvis that cuts through many myths, as well as a fascinating insight into his first concerts and early recording sessions at Sun Studios in Memephis.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0349106517 (1107 words)

	Amazon.de: English Books: Careless Love: The Unmaking of Elvis Presley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guralnick's exploration of Elvis's childhood and rise to fame was notable for its factual rigorousness and its intimate appreciation of Presley's musical agenda.
		Guralnick's triumph is that he's able to cover these manic, and ultimately tragic, years without ever deifying Elvis at his best or demeaning him at his worst.
		Peter Guralnick is, first and foremost, an excellent biographer.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316332976 (1500 words)

	Lost Highway : Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		As I read this book, I found myself wondering if Guralnick had selected his subjects to cover some broad spectrum of the American musical landscape, or if he just wanted to get face to face with his musical heroes, and writing a book about them was a cool way to make that happen.
		Peter Guralnick makes you realize how much it takes to be a musician.
		Elvis was the one guy Guralnick didn't talk to, but you feel his presence in interviews with his old guitarist Scotty Moore and former mentor Sam Phillips.
	www.newyorkwebhosting.us /stuff-0316332747.html (906 words)

	Peter Guralnick
		King Chronicles: Presley's decline is the subject of Peter Guralnick's Careless Love.
		Guralnick, a journalist known for artfully executed biographies of America's most haunting musicians, makes his second portrait of Presley (1994's first volume, Last Train To Memphis, looked at Presley's rise) a darkly burnished, suspense-packed tale of isolation and near-Southern Gothic tragedy.
		Beyond the bizarre tales of drugs and money, Guralnick casts a post-army Presley and manager Col. Tom Parker as twins in a tortured drama of Shakespearean proportions.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/012199/20Q.shtml (602 words)

	Blues from the Shadows
		Similar to my own response after first listening to the recordings, Peter Guralnick was astonished by the voice of Robert Johnson and the open tunings of his guitar.
		Guralnick uses his sources to create a vivid picture of a shy yet versatile guitar player who would often hide his hands from public sight when he played.
		By revealing what is known and leaving the mysterious to the imagination, Guralnick masterfully allows Robert Johnson to take on personal qualities and become more than just the voice on the recordings.
	www.etsu.edu /writing/adcomp_s04/00blues.htm (1174 words)

	Salon Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Throughout his career, Guralnick has retained the missionary ardor that characterized his early writing on the blues; he has worked as an executive producer on recordings by, among others, Charlie Rich and Sleepy LaBeef, has written two documentaries about Elvis and has produced an ocean of liner notes.
		"I have never written on assignment," says Guralnick, and there can be no doubt that the impetus for his close-up portraits of musicians stems from a deep affinity for their work.
		In reviewing "Careless Love," a critic praised Guralnick's reluctance to judge his characters while castigating him for "being too easy on the Colonel." I mention this to Guralnick, wondering whether a work motivated by affection can also be critical.
	dir.salon.com /people/feature/2000/06/16/guralnick (2831 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: Elvis Day by Day: The Definitive Record of His Life and Music
		Guralnick's co-author, also an Elvis scholar, has co-produced boxed sets of the singer's music and annotated his recording sessions.
		Guralnick credits Parker and Presley's father Vernon with holding onto material they knew would eventually have great historical interest.
		It is, as Guralnick says, "a kind of biographical exoskeleton." Besides citing Presley's routine daily activities, the book also lists the dates and places of his live performances and recordings, as well as the release dates of his records.
	www.bookpage.com /9912bp/nonfiction/elvis_day_by_day.html (378 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Guralnick may be a premiere chronicler of American popular music, which he writes about with brains, reverence, and a peculiar tenderness for dashed dreams.
		Guralnick provides plenty of background on the "race music" that spawned RandB and the great soul music of the sixties and early seventies, on which much of the book concentrates.
		Guralnick's book starts off looking like a history of Soul Music (there are early chapters on Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and an amazing and hilarious chapter on Solomon Burke), but then the book changes emphasis and becomes the story of the involvement of white musicians in Southern RandB.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0316332739 (1327 words)

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