Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

We've each turned to different books in the past week. Some of you have said you're too distracted to read at all. I found myself ravenous for this one, which I had been hungry to read ever since it came out last fall (it's newly out in paperback). Surely in part as an escape, but also to enter into the life of a white man who grew up poor in Alabama and who took it as a mission to record the kinds of voices, black and white, that hadn't yet been heard: Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley. So far, it's every bit as good as I'd hoped, with both an author and a subject fully aware of the mission and the myth Phillips was possessed by.