Rhythm Oil: Journey Through the Music of the American South - Tapa dura

Focusing on Memphis, the book describes a series of encounters with many of the legendary figures of American blues and soul music including B.B.King, Otis Redding, Booker-T and the MGs, Elvis Presley, Al Green and Keith Richards. By the author of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones.

Stanley Booth was born in 1943 in Waycross, Georgia, near the Okefinokee Swamp. He graduated from Memphis State University in 1963. He has been a karate teacher, a state welfare worker, a Pinkerton operative, and a writign teacher in a school for poor black children. Living in Memphis, he began to write what are now considered classic essays about the masters of the blues. His work has appeared in Esquire, Rolling Stone, Playboy and many other magazines and newspapers. He is the author of The True Adventures of the Rollling Stones, an epic accoutn of life on the road in the Sicties. He lives in Brunswick, Georgia, opposite St Simon's Island.