Stanley Booth

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For Anglican bishop, see Stanley Booth-Clibborn.
Stanley Booth
Born (1942-01-05) January 5, 1942 (age 82)
Waycross, Georgia, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materMemphis State University
OccupationMusic journalist

Stanley Booth (born January 5, 1942, in

Rolling Stones
in several of his works.

Career

Booth received a degree in English and

day job with the Tennessee Department of Welfare.[1] His early oeuvre includes notable articles on Memphis musicians like Presley (including a seminal 1967 article for Esquire regarded by James Calemine as "the first serious article" written about the singer)[3] and Redding, the latter of whom Booth witnessed writing the famous song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" with Steve Cropper at Stax Studios
on the Friday before Redding's death.

After befriending Richards at the instigation of

Hells' Angels
.

Although his 1970 profile of

clinical depression, drug problems and domestic upheaval"; these problems were exacerbated by a LSD-induced back injury in 1978.[4] Nevertheless, his long-gestating account of the 1969 tour (Dance with the Devil: The Rolling Stones and Their Times, later republished as The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones) was finally released to rapturous reviews in 1984.[3] However, the book's effusive reception (including plaudits from Richards, who has characterized the book as "the only one I can read and say, 'Yeah, that's how it was...'") belied lingering contractual issues that ensured Booth made "next to nothing" from his work.[4]

In addition to an essay collection (Rythm Oil) and a biography of Richards, Booth has also published articles in Rolling Stone,

Peckinpah. For some years Booth lived near Brunswick, Georgia with his late wife, the poet Diann Blakely
. He now resides in Memphis, and is finishing the successor to Rythm Oil, currently entitled Blues Dues; a memoir, Tree Full of Owls; and Distant Thoughts, a series of letters chronicling the unfolding literary relationship and love story between Booth and poet Blakely.

Selected works

  • "Furry's Blues," 1970 (Playboy article)
  • Dance with the Devil: The Rolling Stones and Their Times, 1984
  • Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South, 1991
  • Keith: Standing in the Shadows, 1996
  • The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, 2000 (revised iteration of Dance with the Devil)

Articles and essays

References

  1. ^ a b "Stanley Booth Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  2. ^ "Tulane University". Tulane.edu.
  3. ^ a b "Swampland:Stanley Booth: Can I Get A Witness". Swampland.com.
  4. ^ a b "True Adventures Of the Rolling Stones: author Stanley Booth interview". Telegraph.co.uk.

External links

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