Programs at Home: Music Biographer Peter Guralnick
36m
As part of the GRAMMY Museum’s Programs at Home series, Founding Executive Director Bob Santelli talks with music’s preeminent biographer, Peter Guralnick, about his latest book, Looking To Get Lost: Adventures In Music And Writing. The anthology finds the best-selling and award-winning author reflecting on memorable encounters with icons like Ray Charles, Chuck Berry, Tammy Wynette, Colonel Tom Parker, Howlin’ Wolf, Doc Pomus, and Merle Haggard. Through his writing, Guralnick has earned a GRAMMY and an illustrious list of on-record fans and collaborators, including Bob Dylan, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ken Burns, Lucinda Williams, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Martin Scorsese, Chuck D, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Mick Jagger. Jagger and DiCaprio are currently working on a film adaption of Guralnick's most recent book, 2015's Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll, which Rolling Stone called “definitive” and The New York Times hailed as “vital American history, smartly and warmly told.”