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Robert Gordon: It Came From Memphis (Secker & Warburg)

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, October 1995

"WE HAD poetic furor," says Memphis scenester Randall Lyon, a key figure in Robert Gordon's new book about the music of his home town. "I always figured that was the best thing that could happen to you, to be caught up with a group of people with heroic enthusiasm for what they're doing."

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