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Memphis Rent Party

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by Robert Gordon


  Ryman Auditorium, here

  Sam and Dave, here

  Sam Phillips Recording Service, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Sanders, Dorothy, here

  Sanders, Will Roy, here

  “Satisfaction” (song), here

  Savage, Randy “Macho Man”, here

  Schneider, Peter, here

  Scorsese, Martin, here

  Searching for Robert Johnson (Guralnick), here, here, here

  Sellers, Peter, here

  Selvidge, Sid, here, here, here, here, here

  The Session (album), here

  Sex Pistols, here

  Shadows (film), here

  Shaffer, Paul, here, here

  Shakespeare, Robbie, here

  Shakey Jake, here

  Shaw, Robert, here

  “She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye” (song), here

  Shelley, Steve, here, here, here

  “She’s Puttin’ Something in My Food” (song), here

  “She Still Comes Around (To Love What’s Left of Me)” (song), here

  “Shimmy She Wobble” (song), here

  Shines, Johnny, here

  Sikes, Stuart, here

  “Silent Night” (song), here

  Simone, Nina, here

  Singleton, John, here

  Singleton, Shelby, here, here

  The Sixties (Anderson), here

  “61 Highway” (song), here

  Slim Rhodes Band, here

  Sly and Robbie, here

  Smith, Elliott, here

  Smith, RJ, here

  “Smokestack Lightnin’ ” (song), here

  Solo Piano (album), here

  Songs the Lord Taught Us (album), here

  Sonic Youth, here, here, here, here, here

  Southern Comfort (film), here

  Spake, Jim, here

  Spector, Phil, here

  Spencer, Robert. See Johnson, Robert

  Springsteen, Bruce, here

  Stanton, Harry Dean, here

  Staples, Mavis, here

  Starr, Ringo, here

  Stax Records, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Sterling Grill, here

  Stevens, Shawn Michelle, here

  Stewart, Rod, here

  Stranded in Canton (film), here, here, here, here, here, here

  Streets of Fire (film), here

  Stroud, James, here

  Stuart, Marty, here

  Sunnyland Slim, here

  Sun Records

  and Johnny Cash, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and Quinton Claunch, here

  and B. B. Cunningham, here

  and Charlie Feathers, here, here, here, here, here, here

  influence on Tav Falco, here

  and Roland Janes, here, here

  and Bill Justis, here

  and Stephen LaVere, here

  and Jerry Lee Lewis, here, here, here, here, here

  and Jerry McGill, here, here, here

  and Carl Perkins, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and Sam Phillips recording philosophy, here, here

  and Elvis Presley, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  sale of, here

  and Mose Vinson, here

  “Suspicious Minds” (song), here, here

  Swaggart, Jimmy, here, here

  Sweet Soul Music (Guralnick), here

  “Take It Off” (song), here

  Take Me to the Limit (album), here

  “Tammy” (song), here

  Tatum, Art, here

  Teagarden, Jack, here

  Teal, Alex, here

  Tee, Willie, here

  Televista, here

  Tennessee Waltz (Mud Boy’s farewell performance), here

  “Tennessee Waltz” (song), here

  That ’70s Show (TV show), here

  “That Ain’t Right” (song), here

  “That’s All Right” (song), here

  “That’s How Strong My Love Is” (song), here

  Theatre of Cruelty, here, here

  “The Road to Memphis” (episode of The Blues), here

  “Thirty Nine and Holding” (song), here

  Thomas, Rufus, here, here, here, here

  Thomas, Sharde, here, here, here

  Thompson, Carrie Spencer, here, here, here

  Thurman, Billy. See McGill, Jerry

  “Tina, the Go Go Queen” (song), here

  “Tiny Hineys and Hogs” (song), here

  “Tongue-Tied Jill” (song), here

  Toni (Fieldstones’s drummer), here, here

  Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge, here

  Tosches, Nick, here

  “The Train Kept A-Rollin’ ” (song), here, here

  Tubb, Ernest, here

  Tucker, Ken, here

  Tuff Green and the Rocketeers, here

  Turner, Archie “Hubbie,” here

  Turner, Bernice, here

  Turner, Otha

  and Behind the Magnolia Curtain, here

  early music experiences of, here

  as Tav Falco influence, here

  fife and drum picnic of, here, here, here, here, here

  and North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, here

  photographs of, here, here, here, here

  as teacher of fife, here

  “Turn on Your Love Light” (song), here, here

  “Twilight” (song), here, here

  Twitty, Conway, here

  “Uh Huh Honey” (song), here

  Unapproachable Panther Burns

  and Alex Chilton, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and Jim Dickinson, here, here, here

  and Tav Falco, here, here, here, here, here, here, here

  and Charlie Feathers, here

  “Un Poco Loco” (song), here

  Uttal, Larry, here

  Van Eaton, J. M., here, here

  Van Zandt, Townes, here

  Vaughan, Sarah, here

  Vaughn, Ben, here

  Vertov, Dziga, here

  Very Extremely Dangerous (film), here, here

  Vestine, Henry, here

  Vinson, Mose, here, here, here, here

  “Volare” (song), here

  “Waiting Around to Die” (song), here

  Walden, Phil, here

  “Walking the Floor Over You” (song), here

  “Walking to New Orleans” (song), here

  Wammack, Travis, here

  Warner Bros, here

  Washington, Butterfly, here

  Waters, Ethel, here

  Waters, Muddy, here, here

  “Waymore’s Blues” (song), here

  Weaver, Dennis, here

  “We Can’t Seem to Remember to Forget” (song), here

  Well (bar), here, here

  Wenders, Wim, here

  Westerberg, Paul, here, here, here

  Wexler, Jerry, here

  “What’d I Say” (song), here

  “What’s Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out of Me)” (song), here

  What Would the Community Think (album), here

  “Where Is My Love” (song), here

  White, Bukka, here, here

  Whitesnake, here

  Whitten, J. W., here, here, here, here

  Who Is Herman Green? His Music, Worthy of Note (album), here

  “Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On” (song), here, here

  “Wild Horses” (song), here

  “Wild Is the Wind” (song), here

  Williams, Big Joe, here

  Williams, Don, here

  Williams, Hank

  compared to Charlie Feathers, here

  death of, here

  and Grand Ole Opry, here

  and Jerry Lee Lewis, here

  and The Louisiana Hayride, here

  as songwriter, here, here, here, here, here, here

  Williams, R. E., here

  Willie Nelson & Friends (TV special), here

  Willi
s, Ernest, here, here, here

  Winogrand, Garry, here

  Withers, Ernest, here

  Woods, Johnny, here, here, here

  World Pacific, here

  World’s Greatest Soul Singer (album), here

  “Would You Take Another Chance on Me” (song), here

  Wright, O. V., here, here

  Wyman, Bill, here

  Yardbirds, here

  Young, Evelyn, here

  Young, Lester, here

  Young, Lonnie, here

  “You’ve Got My Mind Messed Up” (song), here

  “You Win Again” (song), here

  A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

  Robert Gordon is a writer and filmmaker. His books include It Came from Memphis, Can’t Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters, and Respect Yourself: Stax Records and the Soul Explosion. He won a Grammy for his liner notes to the Big Star boxed set Keep an Eye on the Sky. His film work includes producing and directing the documentaries Johnny Cash’s America and William Eggleston’s Stranded in Canton. His Best of Enemies, about William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal, was shortlisted for an Oscar and won an Emmy. Gordon lives in Memphis.

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  Respect Yourself

  The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A monument to racial harmony in blighted south Memphis, Stax explodes as a national player during the civil rights movement. Then, Icarus-like, the heights its leaders achieve result in their tragic demise. A generation later, Stax is rebuilt brick by brick and is once again transforming disenfranchised youth into stellar young musicians.

  Set in the world of 1960s and ’70s soul music, Respect Yourself is a story of racial integration, black power, economic independence, and an explosive city struggling through volatile years: Memphis, Tennessee. Its characters include Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, the Staple Singers, and Stax’s house band Booker T. and the MG’s. Told by one of our leading music journalists, Respect Yourself is the definitive story of one of our most treasured cultural institutions and the city that created it.

  “A joyous and heartbreaking story that says a lot about America.” —Richard Hell, The Wall Street Journal

  “A spellbinding history of one of the most prolific hit-making independent record companies in the history of American music.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

  “The voices of the members of the Stax family, and Gordon’s deep knowledge of Memphis, give the book a significance that extends beyond a single recording studio.” —The New York Times Book Review

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  First published in the United States in 2018

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