Cover design by Richard Ljoenes
Cover photograph courtesy of Bill Millar Collection
Front endpaper: High School Confidential, 1958. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.
Title page: Backstage at the Star-Club, Hamburg, Germany. Redferns/Getty Images.
Back endpaper: Memphis, Tennessee, May 2014. © Ericson Group Inc.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to reprint the material on the following pages:
“Hong Kong Blues” by Hoagy Carmichael copyright © 1939 by Songs of Peer, Ltd., copyright renewed, used by permission.
“Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” © Universal Music Group, used by permission.
“Cherry Red,” written by Barry Alan Gibb. © Crompton Songs (BMI). All rights administered by Warner/Chappell Music LTD. All rights reserved.
“Hadacol Boogie” ©1938 Bill Nettles/Flat Town Music, Nettles Publishing.
“End of the Road” by Jerry Lee Lewis © Lost Square Music. Used by permission of Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
“Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On” © NIMANI Entertainment, Co.
“Crazy Arms.” Music and Lyrics by Ralph Eugene Mooney and Chuck Seals. All rights reserved.
“I Shall Not Be Moved,” written by John S. Hurt © 1998 EMI Longitude Music. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Great Balls of Fire,” Words and music by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer ©1957 (Renewed) UniChappell Music, Inc., Chappell & Co., Inc., Mijac Music and Mystical Light Music. All Rights Reserved.
“Breathless,” Words and music by Otis Blackwell © 1958 (Renewed) UniChappell Music, Inc. All rights reserved.
“You Win Again,” written by Hank Williams Sr. © 1952 Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Another Place Another Time,” written by Jerry Chesnut © 1968 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Lust of the Blood,” written by Jack Good, Ray Pohlman. Used by permission of Range Road Music, Inc.
“She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye,” written by Douglas Gilmore and Mickey Newbury © 1969 Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“She Still Comes Around.” Music and lyrics by Glenn Sutton © EMI Music Publishing.
“Mother, the Queen of My Heart” by Hoyt Brant and Jimmie Rodgers, copyright © 1933 by Peer International Corporation, copyright renewed, used by permission.
“A Damn Good Country Song,” written by Donnie Fritts © 1975 Combine Music Corp. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Middle Age Crazy,” written by Sonny Throckmorton © 1977 Sony/ATV Tree Publishing. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Why You Been Gone So Long,” written by Mickey Newbury © 1969 Sony/ATV Acuff Rose Music. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Mean Old Man,” written by Kris Kristofferson. Jody Ray Publishing (BMI). All rights reserved. Used by permission.
“Bye, Bye, Blackbird,” written by Mort Dixon and Ray Hederson. Used by permission of Bienstock Publishing Company on behalf of Redwood Music Ltd. © 1926 (Renewed) Ray Henderson Music Company and Olde Clover Leaf Music (Administered by BUG). All rights reserved.