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Peter Guralnick

About

Peter Guralnick’s most recent book is Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing, which was published in October. His previous book was Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll, which was short-listed for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year in 2015.

Articles

Issue 91, Winter 2015

Searching the Desert for the Blues

Blind Willie McTell simply kept showing up—and showing up under all those unlikely pseudonyms.

By Peter Guralnick
Issue 111, Winter 2020

Whose Skip James is This?

By Peter Guralnick

HAVING A PARTY

An excerpt from Looking to Get Lost by Peter Guralnick  Simply put, this is a book about creativity. Like so many other things in my life, this is a realization I have come to only after the...

By Peter Guralnick

I STILL MISS SOMEONE

Roland Janes, 1933-2013 If you ever visited the Sam C. Phillips Recording Studio at 639 Madison Avenue in Memphis, you would know Roland Janes. He was there managing the studio, engineering sessions,...

By Peter Guralnick

MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN

Marketing strategies (which, after all, is all that categories are) may rise and fall, but to the democratic listener they are beside the point. The music calls attention to itself, and then takes...

By Peter Guralnick