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Mystery Train: Images Of America In Rock’n’Roll Music
Greil Marcus THE FOLIO SOCIETY
Music writing at its very best.
This is the motherlode. Held by Time magazine to be one of the “100 Most Influential Books written in English since 1923”, and it’s hard to argue with the New York Times when it claims Mystery Train (first published in 1975) to be the “greatest book written about American music (and rock in particular)”.
The book is a collection of critic Greil Marcus’s essays around several luminaries including Elvis Presley, The Band, Sly Stone and Robert Johnson, and details with painstaking detail and lovingly interpretative prose the direction rock music took in the
