Backbeat : Earl Palmer's story
He's been a session man for Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, and Count Basie. As a studio player in New Orleans and Los Angeles from the 1940s through the 1970s, Earl Palmer co-created hundreds of hits and transformed the lope of rhythm and blues into the full-tilt thrust of rock and roll. This first-person narrative of Earl Palmer's life and career probes some little-explored regions of the American cultural landscape
Print Book, English, ©1999
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, ©1999