CONTENTS

Preface

Give Me Something Different

Sam Phillips

Sam on Dave

Jim Dickinson

On the Edge

Ernest Willis

Mississippi Reverie

Mose Vinson

No Pain Pill

The Fieldstones

Got to Move on Down the Line

Lead Belly

Nobody in This World

Robert Johnson

Hellhound on the Money Trail

Junior Kimbrough

Mississippi Juke Joint

Charlie Feathers

The Onliest

James Carr

Way Out on a Voyage

Otha Turner’s Fife and Drum Picnic

Let Us Eat Goat

Mama Rose Newborn

Useless Are the Flowers

Townes Van Zandt

All the Federales Say

Jeff Buckley

Northern Light

Bobby “Blue” Bland

Love Throat

Tav Falco

Panther Burns Forever Lasting

Jerry Lee Lewis

Last Killer Standing

Cat Power

Kool Kween

Jerry McGill

Very Extremely Dangerous

Alex Chilton

No Chitterlings Today

Afterword

Stuck Inside the Memphis Blues Again

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Photographers

Digging Deeper for Different—Further Listening and Reading

Index

A Note on the Author

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