Description: "All aspects of [Beale Street's] complex, fascinating history are told...with verve and vivid erudition." --Wall Street Journal
Brief description: Preston Lauterbach is the author of Bluff City, Beale Street Dynasty, The Chitlin' Circuit, a Wall Street Journal and Boston Globe book of the year, and co-author of Brother Johnson: Growing Up with Robert Johnson. He is a former visiting scholar at Rhodes College and a Virginia Humanities Fellow. He lives in Virginia.
Review Quotes: Lauterbach has become one of my favorite people to read on 20th-century popular music.--John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of Pulphead