Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom

By: Peter Guralnick

Published July 1st 1999 by Back Bay Books (first published 1986)

Category: Biography

Pages: 384 pages

ISBN: 9780316332736

Description:
A gripping narrative that captures the tumult and liberating energy of a nation in transition, Sweet Soul Music is an intimate portrait of the legendary performers--Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, James Brown, Solomon Burke, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Al Green among them--who merged gospel and rhythm and blues to create Southern soul music. Through rare interviews and with unique insight, Peter Guralnick tells the definitive story of the songs that inspired a generation and forever changed the sound of American music.