I'm just dead, I'm not gone / Jim Dickinson ; edited and with an introduction by Ernest Suarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dickinson, James Luther.

Contributor:

Suarez, Ernest, editor.

Series:

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickinson, James Luther.

Sound recording executives and producers--United States--Biography.

Sound recording executives and producers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]

Contents:

Part I The Search for Blind Lemon (1941-1971)

Chapter 1 Went to See the Gypsy (1961) 11

Chapter 2 "My Father Was a Travelin' Man ..." (1787-1949) 13

Chapter 3 Memphis (1949-54) 23

Chapter 4 The Wolf (1954-58) 32

Chapter 5 Butterfly and Dishrag (1955-67) 34

Chapter 6 Pretty Browns in Beautiful Gowns (1949-55) 36

Chapter 7 Daddy-O Dewey (1949-58) 38

Chapter 8 Big Jim and Elvis (1949-1956) 40

Chapter 9 On a Train That Is Passing Through (1955) 48

Chapter 10 The Regents (1957-60) 51

Chapter 11 The Point and the Setting Sun (1957-60) 61

Chapter 12 Dire Females (1955-63) 62

Chapter 13 Vassapoo, Open D Guitar Tuning (Fall 1959) 65

Chapter 14 The Casino with Scotty and Bill (1960) 68

Chapter 15 Bring On the Bullet (1960) 71

Chapter 16 The Very First Time (1956-60) 78

Chapter 17 Vampus of the Campus (1960) 80

Chapter 18 Back and Forth, Up and Down (1960) 89

Chapter 19 The Plot Sickens (1960) 92

Chapter 20 Second Semester: What the Monkey Saw (1961) 97

Chapter 21 Spring Poems (1961) 101

Chapter 22 More Back and Forth, Up and Down (1961) 105

Chapter 23 Homecoming Queen: It's Never Too Late (1961) 110

Chapter 24 "Big D" (little "a") (1961-62) 112

Chapter 25 Back to the Burying Ground (1962) 116

Chapter 26 All up in Sonny's Bed (1962) 120

Chapter 27 Lost in the Woods (1962-63) 125

Chapter 28 Market Theatre (1963) 135

Chapter 29 Ol' Sam Hess (1963) 141

Chapter 30 Oso and Dixieland Folk Style (1963) 144

Chapter 31 New Beale Street Sheiks and the Return of Will Shade (1963) 150

Chapter 32 Ray Brown: The Round Mound of Sound (1964-69) 154

Chapter 33 Married, Return to Waco, and Good Kid-The All-Time Champ (1964) 159

Chapter 34 Granny's Sewing Room (1965) 165

Chapter 35 Free Teddy Paige/Memphis Country Blues Festival (1966-67) 170

Chapter 36 Tom Dowd and Knowbody Else (1967-68) 180

Chapter 37 In My Youth I Sought the Truth like Stanley Booth (1967-69) 184

Chapter 38 Stones in My Passway (1969) 191

Chapter 39 "You Got to Move" (1970) 201

Chapter 40 "One More Silver Dollar" (1970) 213

Chapter 41 Return of the Phantom (1970-71) 224

Chapter 42 Hollywood Be Thy Name (1972) 234

Part II Epilogue and the Biblical Chapters.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dickinson, James Luther. I'm just dead, I'm not gone.

ISBN:

9781496810540

1496810546

OCLC:

956530301