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After writing a celebrated twovolume biography of elvis presley and a dozen other books about american. The miracle of last train to memphis, peter guralnick s portrait of elvis presleys early years, was that it erased the memory of that bloated caricature of a performer who staggered across the stage in las vegas and elsewhere in his final years and presented us instead with the exuberant young man. Having read several other books by peter guralnick i certainly wasnt disappointed with the thoroughness with which he tackled this subject on the whole it is a very well researched account mainly of the stax label and muscle shoals with a side order of atlantic and sixties soul artists such as sam cooke and ray charles included for good. Now available as an enhanced ebook this vivid celebration of blues and early rock n roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as muddy waters, skip james, and howlin wolf.