A review by lostjohn02
Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll by Nick Tosches

Did not finish book. Stopped at 39%.

Got tired of tosche’s tough guy shtick, especially because a lot of this is outdated or been expanded upon in better writing.  I can appreciate that when he wrote this there wasn’t a lot of literature focusing on these topics, but now there’s more interesting and accurate books out there. Some of this is well researched, and I find tosche’s writing most compelling when he’s abstract and romantic, comparing Elvis to Dionysus and Jerry lee lewis to Faulkner or whatever. Because of that, I’ll give his later stuff a chance but this wasn’t for me