{"id":45057,"date":"2018-03-07T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=45057"},"modified":"2018-03-07T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T16:55:41","slug":"memphis-rent-party-author-robert-gordon-will-be-at-end-of-all-music-and-thacker-mountain-radio-thursday-march-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/memphis-rent-party-author-robert-gordon-will-be-at-end-of-all-music-and-thacker-mountain-radio-thursday-march-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Rent Party author Robert Gordon Will Be at End of All Music and Thacker Mountain Radio Thursday, March 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop by The End of All Music<\/strong> Thursday, March 8 at 4 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0before\u00a0Thacker Mountain Radio<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

EOAM will be hosting a listening party for\u00a0Memphis Rent Party,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>the companion soundtrack to the book of the same name by\u00a0Robert Gordon<\/strong>.\u00a0The soundtrack, released on\u00a0Fat Possum Records<\/strong>, features tracks by\u00a0Alex Chilton<\/strong>, Junior Kimbrough<\/strong>, Jerry Lee Lewis<\/strong>, Jim Dickinson<\/strong><\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0Charlie Feathers<\/strong>,\u00a0and many more!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Robert will be at the record store to sign records and hang out before his reading on\u00a0Thacker Mountain Radio\u00a0at\u00a06 pm<\/span><\/span>\u00a0at Off Square Books<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can\u00a0preorder a copy<\/a>\u00a0of the record on\u00a0\u201cRent Money Green\u201d\u00a0vinyl from EOAM and a copy of the book from\u00a0Square Books<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Gordon\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>has been writing about Memphis music and history for thirty years and is the author of <\/span>It Came from Memphis, Can\u2019t Be Satisfied, The King on the Road, The Elvis Treasures, <\/em>and<\/span> Respect Yourself.<\/em> He won a Grammy in 2011 for his liner notes to the Big Star<\/strong> box set <\/span>Keep an Eye on the Sky<\/em>. His film work includes the PBS documentary<\/span> Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story<\/em><\/strong> and critically acclaimed <\/span>Best of Enemies<\/em>. Gordon lives in Memphis.<\/span><\/p>\n

The fabled city of Memphis has been essential to American music\u2014home of the blues, the birthplace of rock and roll, and a soul music capital. When Robert Gordon started covering Memphis music, the golden ages of his hometown had passed. But the links were there if you looked for them. Starting as a teenager, Gordon sought out old legends Furry Lewis<\/strong> and Mose Vinson<\/strong>, spent time at Jr. Kimbrough\u2019s house parties, went into the grooves of records by Leadbelly<\/strong> and Robert Johnson<\/strong>, and picked up the threads in the new sounds that were developing around him, becoming the official chronicler of the Memphis scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

Memphis Rent Party<\/em> compiles the best of these short pieces from the first three decades of Gordon\u2019s career, many previously unpublished. The focus is on Memphis, but, like mint seeping into bourbon, Gordon gets into the wider world. In addition to homegrown renegades Alex Chilton (Box Tops<\/strong>, Big Star)<\/strong> and producer Jim Dickinson (Replacements<\/strong>, Rolling Stones<\/strong>), he spends time with those whom Memphis has inspired, like Cat Power<\/strong>, Jeff Buckley<\/strong>, and Townes Van Zandt<\/strong>. A rent party is when friends come together to hear music, dance, and help a pal through hard times. With this stellar collection, Gordon\u2014a deep listener, passionate cultural commentator, and unparalleled scribe of Southern sound\u2014throws a rent party that will keep readers reading, music lovers listening, and culture hounds howling for more.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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