Five top rock-and-roll books

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Paul Muldoon, whose new collection is The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics, picked his favorite rock-and-roll books for The Daily Beast.

One title on the list:

The Chitlin’ Circuit: And the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll
By Preston Lauterbach

Among those precursors to whom Keith Richards is deeply indebted are the blues guitarists so memorably summoned up in Preston Lauterbach’s The Chitlin’ Circuit: And the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll, including his near namesake Little Richard.

Read about the other books on the list.

The Page 99 Test: The Chitlin' Circuit.

--Marshal Zeringue