Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the
Lost Dawn of Rock n Roll by Rick
Coleman
Stunning Research And Compelling Writing About One Of The First Great Rock Stars
The critically acclaimed first-ever biography of New Orleans rock n roll
legend Fats Domino by a writer who obtained exclusive access to the
reclusive singer. While many think of Elvis Presley as rock n rolls driving
force, the truth is that Fats Domino, whose records have sold more than
100 million copies, was the first to put it on the map with such hits as Aint
That a Shame and Blueberry Hill. In Blue Monday, acclaimed R&B
scholar Rick Coleman draws on a multitude of new interviews with Fats
Domino and many other early musical legends to create a definitive
biography of not just an extraordinary man but also a unique time and
place: New Orleans at the birth of rock n roll. Colemans groundbreaking
research makes for an immense cultural biography, and is th e first to
convey the full scope of Fats Dominos impact on the popular music of the
twentieth century.
Personal Review: Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost
Dawn of Rock n Roll by Rick Coleman
From his first record in 1949 until his harrowing escape from Hurricane
Katrina in 2005, Antoine "Fats" Domino has defined New Orleans and its
culture. This book puts Fats, his city, and his music into perspective in
amazing detail. In the process, Rick Coleman convincingly demonstrates
that Fats and his collaborators--especially songwriter/arranger Dave
Bartholomew and producer Cosimo Matassa--have as solid a claim as
Elvis, Carl, and Jerry Lee with Sam Phillips in Memphis or Wolf, Muddy,
and Chuck with the Chess brothers in Chicago as the prime architects of
rock 'n' roll. The product of more than 20 years of exhaustive research, this
is, surprisingly, the first biography of one of the greatest early rock stars.
Coleman had his work cut out for him; Fats is notoriously reclusive.
Nevertheless, you come away from this book admiring Fats's talent and
drive, and Coleman's exhaustive research and evocative writing. All the
other great Louisiana rockers are here--the bayou wild men, backwoods
musical savants, and forgotten honkers, shouters, string-benders, and
drum-thumpers who helped create the Crescent City sound. I highly
recommend this to anyone who wants to understand the real, complete
history of rock 'n' roll instead of the revisionist pap that passes for such.
-Mark Hoffman, co-author of "Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of
Howlin' Wolf"
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