Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul In Music's Hometown

"What does it mean to be a local writer? Just read this book. Journalist, filmmaker, record producer and Memphis native Robert Gordon has spent his life closely chronicling the lives of his hometown’s most famous and obscure sons and daughters. In this memoir-cum-anthology he revisits pieces on legends such as Sun Records founder Sam Phillips, mainstays like the North Mississippi blues master Otha Turner and travelers who touched down in his town, including Jeff Buckley and Cat Power’s Chan Marshall; Gordon weaves these tales together with cogent self-analysis, creating a narrative that’s both a biography of his city and the story of his own sentimental education."