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      ALSO BY RICK BRAGG

       All Over but the Shoutin’

       Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg

       Ava’s Man

       I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story

       The Prince of Frogtown

       The Most They Ever Had

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      First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

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      This digital edition first published in 2014 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © 2014 by JLL Ferriday, Inc.

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      First published in the United States in 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007

      Title page photo: Backstage at the Star-Club, Hamburg, Germany.

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      Jerry Lee Lewis Management by:

      Greg Ericson, Ericson Group

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      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 0 85786 157 3

      Export ISBN 978 0 85786 158 0

      eISBN 978 0 85786 160 3

      Designed by William Ruoto

      To anyone who ever

      danced in their socks

      They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.

      – HOSEA 8:7

      If I exorcise my devils, Well, my angels may leave, too.

      – TOM WAITS

      CONTENTS

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List of Illustrations
Introduction: Jolson in the River
1 The Father of Waters
2 Whiskey in the Ditches Two Feet Deep
3 The Big House
4 Mr. Paul
5 Sun
6 “I Been Wantin’ to Meet That Piano Player”
7 Too Hot to Rock
8 England
9 “Who Wants Some of This?”
10 American Wilderness
11 “He Who Steals My Name”
12 Jet Planes and Hearses
13 The Year of the Gun
14 “Babies in the Air”
15 The Fork in the Road
16 Last Man Standing
17 Stone Garden
Epilogue: Killer
Acknowledgments