For over one hundred years, Memphis, Tennessee, has been the center
of musical innovation for American popular music. From W. C. Handy
to Alberta Hunter and Lil Hardin Armstrong, in the early years, to
B. B. King in the late 1940s, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry
Lee Lewis in the 1950s, to Otis Redding, Booker T. and the MGs, and
Al Green in the 1960s and early 1970s, Memphis music sizzled with a
level of creativity unrivaled in the history of American music. For
five decades of the city's marvelous music history, author James L.
Dickerson was at ground zero, first as a high school rock musician
and then as a student rhythm and blues musician at the University
of Mississippi, where his band made history by becoming the first
all-white musical group to perform at a black Memphis nightclub,
and finally as a Memphis journalist, magazine publisher, and radio
syndication owner, who had unparalleled access to many of the music
greats of the latter half of the century. Memphis Going Down is
told in the words of the record producers, performers, and
songwriters themselves as they reflect on their lives and music and
its impact on popular culture. You'll hear legendary record
producers such as Chips Moman, Willie Mitchell, Sam Phillips, and
Jim Stewart talk about the ups and downs of the industry. And
you'll hear the artists themselves: Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Al Green, Bobby Womack, B. B. King, Bobby "Blue"
Bland, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Rufus Thomas, members of the Box Tops,
and the Fabulous Thunderbirds go one-on-one with the author in an
effort to understand the mysteries of Memphis music.
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