I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone by Jim Dickinson | Free Audiobook

01/04/2017 10h 28min
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone by Jim Dickinson | Free Audiobook

Listen "I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone by Jim Dickinson | Free Audiobook"

Episode Synopsis

Listen to full audiobooks for free on :

https://hotaudiobook.com/free

Title: I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

Author: Jim Dickinson, Ernest Suarez - editor

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Music

Summary:

I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone chronicles Jim Dickinson's extraordinary life in the Memphis music scene of the fifties and sixties and how he went on to play with and produce a rich array of artists, including Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Duane Allman, Arlo Guthrie, and Albert King.

With verve and wit, Dickinson (1941-2009) describes his trip to Blind Lemon's grave on the Texas flatlands as a college student and how that encounter inspired his return to Memphis. Back home, he looked up Gus Cannon and Furry Lewis, began staging plays, cofounded what would become the annual Memphis Blues Festival, and started recording.

The blues, Elvis, and early rock 'n' roll compelled Dickinson to reject racial barriers and spurred his contributions to the Memphis music and experimental art scene. He explains how the family yardman, WDIA, Dewey Philips, Furry Lewis, Will Shade, and Howlin' Wolf shaped him and recounts how he went on to learn his craft at Sun, Ardent, American, Muscle Shoals, and Criteria studios from master producers Sam Phillips, John Fry, Chips Moman, and Jerry Wexler.

Contact: [email protected]

More episodes of the podcast Audiobook in Arts & Entertainment, Interviews & Panels