Mystery Train

"Focusing on six artists - "Ancestors" Robert Johnson and Harmonica Frank and "Inheritors" Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Presley - Marcus has, as Jon Landau wrote in Rolling Stone, "taken stylistic, intellectual and creative risks in writing so original and ambitious a book on both America and rock'n'roll. Marcus has often quoted Robbie Robertson of the Band to the effect that music should never be harmless. The best thing about this wonderful book is that it never is."" --Cover.