No one has covered the early years of the Memphis sound as exhaustively as Robert Gordon.
His books include It Came from Memphis, Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, and Respect Youself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion. His new book, Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock and Soul in Music's Hometown, includes early magazine pieces, never-published stories, interview transcripts and personal reminiscences about seminal figures in the development of Memphis music, both famous and little known.
Robert will be signing Memphis Rent Party at 6:30 pm, March 9, at theStax Museum of American Soul Music, and 8 pm, March 10, at Earnestine and Hazel's.