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C. Austin Fitts: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Solari Report. It is my absolute honor this week to introduce and welcome to The Solari Report, one of my favorite writers, and certainly favorite biographer of all time: Peter Guralnick, one of America’s most prominent music writers and historians.

He has written many books. Let me just mention a few here: he has the marvelous trilogy on American roots music, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway, and Feel Like Going Home; his biographies include one on Robert Johnson, a recent one on Sam Cooke, and a two-volume biography of Elvis Presley. The first volume is called Last Train to Memphis, and the second, Careless Love, which I read in the ’90s and absolutely consider as the finest biographies that have ever been written. Not only the best books ever written about Elvis, but marvelous insight into the history of America and the history of American music, and not to be missed. If you like to read, I can’t recommend them enough.

He has written and co-produced a documentary (Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll) about Sam Phillips, the founder of Sun Studio, and is currently working on a biography, which I can’t wait to read. He blogs at his website, www.peterguralnick.com, and teaches Creative Writing during the spring semester at Vanderbilt.

So, Peter, it’s an honor to have you on The Solari Report. Welcome.

Peter Guralnick: Well, thanks so much. I really appreciate that. I don’t know if I can live up to the introduction, but I’ll do my best.