Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis (Thirty Three and a Third series) - Softcover

Zanes, Warren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826414923 ISBN 13: 9780826414922

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2003

Synopsis

Dusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield's beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the album's Memphis roots and talks to several of the key characters who were involved in its creation, many of whom were - like Zanes - outsiders drawn to the American South and mesmerized by its hold over the imagination.

About this title

About the Author

Warren Zanes was a member of roots-rock band The Del Fuegos in the 1980s. Since then he has completed a PhD at the University of Rochester, and has recently released an acclaimed debut solo album, Memory Girls, on Dualtone. www.warren-zanes.com

From the Inside Flap

"The love that is the subject of 'Dusty in Memphis' is different from the love of her earlier songs: it is a love that is all at once diffuse, dark, unpredictable, ecstatic, and a terrible deal. It is a love too big for the lyrical (and for that matter musical) framework of Dusty s earlier pop productions, no matter the breadth of that work. Like Memphis itself, the love that is the subject of 'Dusty in Memphis' is indeed bursting with the contrary: it happens not simply when you yearn for it, as in some adolescent dream, but when you re not prepared for it; it reveals itself not simply under the star-filled skies where a moon hangs low--in fact, as the first and last tracks on side one attest, it might be at its best when the sun s just arriving at work."

'Dusty in Memphis', Dusty Springfield s beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his own love affair with the record. He digs deep into the album s Memphis roots and talks to several of the key characters who were involved in its creation; many of whom were like Zanes outsiders drawn to the American South and mesmerized by its hold over the imagination.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826414923
• ISBN 13: 9780826414922
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 131