Long Before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips\'s Sun Records studio in 1954, Rock \'n\' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, the Dominoes, the Midnighters, Screamin\' Jay Hawkins, Wanda Jackson, and Johnny Ace.
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More than just a series of shrewd and evocative portraits of these and sixteen other performers, this book is also a paean to a forsaken time of relentless excess, sudden ruin, and fierce music.
Long Before Elvis Presley entered Sam Phillips\'s Sun Records studio in 1954, Rock \'n\' roll was being performed and recorded by the likes of Big Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Wynonie Harris, the Clovers, the Dominoes, the Midnighters, Screamin\' Jay Hawkins, Wanda Jackson, and Johnny Ace