ALSO BY RICK BRAGG
All Over but the Shoutin’
Somebody Told Me: The Newspaper Stories of Rick Bragg
Ava’s Man
I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story
The Prince of Frogtown
The Most They Ever Had
First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
This digital edition first published in 2014 by Canongate Books
Copyright © 2014 by JLL Ferriday, Inc.
The moral right of the author has been asserted
First published in the United States in 2014 by HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007
Title page photo: Backstage at the Star-Club, Hamburg, Germany.
Redferns/Getty images
For permissions credits please see here
Jerry Lee Lewis Management by:
Greg Ericson, Ericson Group
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 85786 157 3
Export ISBN 978 0 85786 158 0
eISBN 978 0 85786 160 3
Designed by William Ruoto
To anyone who ever
danced in their socks
They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
– HOSEA 8:7
If I exorcise my devils, Well, my angels may leave, too.
– TOM WAITS
CONTENTS