Lauterbach is well suited to tell the story of Elvis' Black musical forebears. Hailed by historian Greil Marcus as “the most valuable chronicler of African American music as a fulcrum and a ...

According to Ray Connolly in Being Elvis, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, a black Mississippian ... and what was then called “race music” — music by southern blacks — to make something ...

For music historian Preston Lauterbach, Elvis Presley stands out as an artist who synthesized a remarkable range of styles — ...

BOOKS ABOUT ELVIS: 'Before Elvis' explores the music of the Black artists who influenced the King Restored to public display after years in figurative if not literal mothballs, the newly added ...

Black Sabbath isn’t the only band to cover the tune, though they are certainly among the oddest. John Lennon, Conway Twitty, Pat Boone, The Dave Clark Five, and Jimi Hendrix are just a few others who ...