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"Memphis Rent Party," new by Robert Gordon

Bloomsbury

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.

I began piano lessons at age 6, trumpet at age 9, and began teaching myself the guitar at 10. My electronics knowledge comes from my father, who had the RCA television and stereo shop in my hometown of Pocahontas, Arkansas for nearly 20 years. My dad is still fixing televisions at age 79.