The Top 30 Rock Books I Own: #7 Mystery Train

Title: Mystery Train
Author: Greil Marcus
Year Originally Published: 1975
Edition I Own: Penguin Group, Third Edition, 1990

What They Say: 1) The New York Times: "Should be read by anyone who cares about America or its music." (No link, this is on the back cover of my edition.) 2) The editors of The Rolling Stone Record Guide (the first red one): "A work of scholarship and passion ... the first book to fit rock into the currents of traditional American culture and thought."

Tuomala's Attempt At A Take: I'm pretty sure that this is the only book by Marcus where he doesn't mention the French Situationists.