Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

• description of the birth of rock and roll with Sam Phillips in the 1950s Memphis.

<div><b>The author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography <i>Last Train to Memphis</i> brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records.</b></div> <div></div> <div>The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis<b> </b>studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound<b> </b>that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, <i>integrated</i> musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the<b> </b>legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.</div>