Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll

Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll
by Rick Coleman

Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll
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Author: Rick Coleman
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-23
ISBN: 0306815311
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Book Review: Stunning research and compelling writing about one of the first great rock stars
Summary: 5 Stars

From his first record in 1949 until his harrowing escape from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Antoine "Fats" Domino has defined New Orleans and its culture. This book puts Fats, his city, and his music into perspective in amazing detail. In the process, Rick Coleman convincingly demonstrates that Fats and his collaborators--especially songwriter/arranger Dave Bartholomew and producer Cosimo Matassa--have as solid a claim as Elvis, Carl, and Jerry Lee with Sam Phillips in Memphis or Wolf, Muddy, and Chuck with the Chess brothers in Chicago as the prime architects of rock 'n' roll. The product of more than 20 years of exhaustive research, this is, surprisingly, the first biography of one of the greatest early rock stars. Coleman had his work cut out for him; Fats is notoriously reclusive. Nevertheless, you come away from this book admiring Fats's talent and drive, and Coleman's exhaustive research and evocative writing. All the other great Louisiana rockers are here--the bayou wild men, backwoods musical savants, and forgotten honkers, shouters, string-benders, and drum-thumpers who helped create the Crescent City sound. I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to understand the real, complete history of rock 'n' roll instead of the revisionist pap that passes for such. -Mark Hoffman, co-author of "Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf"

Summary of Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll

While many think of Elvis Presley as rock ?n? roll?s driving force, the truth is that Fats Domino, whose records have sold more than 100 million copies, was the first to put it on the map with such hits as “Ain?t That a Shame? and “Blueberry Hill.? In Blue Monday, acclaimed R&B scholar Rick Coleman draws on a multitude of new interviews with Fats Domino and many other early musical legends to create a definitive biography of not just an extraordinary man but also a unique time and place: New Orleans at the birth of rock ?n? roll. Coleman?s groundbreaking research makes for an immense cultural biography, and is the first to convey the full scope of Fats Domino?s impact on the popular music of the twentieth century.

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