Peter Guralnick

Peter Guralnick has written extensively on American music and musicians. His books include the prize-winning Elvis Presley two-part biography Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love; an acclaimed trilogy on American roots music, Sweet Soul Music, Lost Highway and Feel Like Going Home; the biographical inquiry Searching for Robert Johnson; the novel Nighthawk Blues; and Dream Boogie, a biography of Sam Cooke. His biography of Sam Phillips will be published by Little, Brown in November 2015.

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How MLK Influenced Sam Cooke’s Best Song

<p>This week 50 years ago, Sam Cooke’s ‘A Change is Gonna Come’ was released. An excerpt from Peter Guralnick’s <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Boogie-The-Triumph-Cooke-ebook/dp/B000SEQ01Q">superb recently rereleased biography</a> of the singer examines what inspired him to write the song.</p>

Peter Guralnick