MYSTERY TRAIN ~ Greil Marcus (Images of America in Rock 'N' Roll Music) [Paperback]

Format: Paperback

Published: 2015

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Pages: 424

Condition: EX No rips, tears or splits, all pages are intact, in near mint condition.

“Gets as close to the heart and soul of America and American music as the best rock ‘n’ roll” Bruce Springsteen.

Greil Marcus, rock critic and columnist for Rolling Stone, and contributor to other publications, such as Creem, the Village Voice, and Artforum, wrote Mystery Train in 1975. In the prologue, he relates that the book "is no attempt at synthesis, but a recognition of unities in the American imagination that already exist." The writing, according to the author, took about "two years of doing nothing else."

Mystery Train, according to one reviewer, reflects on what could be called "the historical turn" that rock took at the close of the 60s, initiated by Bob Dylan and the Band, and followed through by everyone from Creedence Clearwater Revival to Randy Newman, the music moving "beyond rock'n'roll's teenage immersion in the present to an adult sophistication steeped in deep knowledge of rock's roots in blues and country and lyrics that likewise looked to the past for inspiration.