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GHOSTS BEHIND THE SUN: Memphis: Splendor, Enigma & Death
By Tav Falco
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Ghost Behind The Sun, Tav Falco's sprawling study of Memphis, begins with the Civil War massacre at Fort Pillow, the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878 and the grisly murders of the Harp Brothers. Falco traces these legends of Reconstruction-era Memphis to an equally brutal twentieth century underworld Beale Street kingpin Jim Canaan, Edward Crump's political machine, the Dixie Mafia, and others. 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. Interwoven with these accounts is an autobiographical history of Falco's own time in Memphis, including his involvement with performance art ensemble Insect Trust, working with pop/rock maverick Alex Chilton, and the formation of his seminal rock and roll band, Panther Burns. Illustrated throughout.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A sort of oral history of Memphis, Tav Falco rides around town on his motorbike, referring to himself in the third person, armed with a well-used thesaurus, and interviewing dozens of local personalities from record producers to bikies. Unfortunately Tav is seriously lacking in an editor, a proof reader and a world atlas (it's SYDNEY Tav, not Sidney.) This could have been a great book: the stories told by the colourful characters are really interesting and I do feel I know more about this fascinating city but we get too bogged down in details about the author's time in the obscure post-punk, no-wave band Panther Burn, including a lengthy, unnecessary and fairly boring interview towards the end.
Tav Falco (or Eugene Baffle? I'm so confused) is a seriously weird guy, but it kind of adds to the charm. Don't read this book expecting a coherent narrative about the history of Memphis but what is there might be even more rewarding despite (or because of) of its weirdness and eccentricities.
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