Memphis Blues again....

[Ted Samsel]

I say: 
>  
> >> See: GOIN' BACK TO MEMPHIS by Jim Dickenson (lots of good Memphian
> >> historicity.....)
> >
> >I've read only two of Stern's books, a novel _Abe Kaplan's Adventures
> >Underground_ I think it was called and a collection of three novellas _A
> >Plague of Dreamers_.  Both were much more about "the Pinch," a Jewish
> >neighborhood in Memphis (real or fictional? I don't know) than about
> >Memphis in general.  Both were great fun. 
> >
> >I'll have to look for Dickenson.  This benighted university library
> >doesn't seem to have it.
> >
> >	Steve Maas
>  
> Another good Memphis book is _It Came from Memphis_ by Robert Gordon....
> 
> lots in it about Jim Dickinson and Alex Chilton....
> didn't know Dickinson had written a book...He is one of the most influential
> musicians of the latemid century Memphis rock seen...but ICM is a good book
> for any Memphis or Big Star or just plain RandR fan.
> 

Sorry. That's Jim Dickirson. He's a journalist type and is a native
Memphian, I believe... he said he get mistaken for the other Jim
D. due to his name.... Jim Dickenson does provide quite a few anecdotes,
by the way.....
..and the book goes back prior to the days of WC Handy...


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