To a generation that took rock as seriously as we took Camus and Borges, Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock’n’Roll Music (1975) lit a path through lost highways to Robert Johnson and Jimmie Rodgers and countless others with ancestral links to the music we grew up with – Dylan and the Band, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix.
I won’t name names they know who they are. If, as Benjamin Franklin is said to have said, originality is the art of concealing your source, then I am the most original writer in America: I’ve been stealing stuff from Greil Marcus since I was editing my school paper at the University of Alabama, and have continued to do it. Illustrated by Aya Morton, Text Adapted by Fred Fordham The Great Gatsby, The Graphic Novel by F. Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby by Greil Marcus
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