Memoir of Scotty Moore, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and manager. This is a re-release of a landmark music book first published in 1997 by Simon & Schuster. It was a finalist for the prestigious Gleason Award, given out by BMI, New York University and Rolling Stone magazine. Scotty Moore passed away in 2016 and the book has been revised and brought up to date. When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillip's Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Sam asked guitarist Scotty and bass player Bill Black to work with Elvis—and the music they created as the Blue Moon Boys launched what became known as rock ‘n’ roll. Scotty and Bill toured with the young singer, and played on all of his Sun sessions and his first recordings for RCA; Scotty also served as Elvis’s manager. With Bill Black and Elvis both gone, Scotty was the only remaining member of the original trio who could tell the true story of how Elvis transformed popular music—and how Scotty created the guitar sound that has become the prototype for all rock guitar that followed, prompting Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards to proclaim, “Everyone else wanted to be Elvis—I wanted to be Scotty.” After he stopped touring with Elvis on a regular basis, Scotty moved to Nashville, where he recorded an instrumental album, “The Guitar That Changed the World.” He joined Elvis on stage in 1968 for the heralded “Comeback” session, but after that he put his guitar aside to engineer the recordings of others. In 1970, he engineered Ringo Starr’s Nashville album, “Beaucoups of Blues.” By the 1990s, he decided to play guitar again, accepting offers to record with Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, and Paul McCartney. For all fans of Elvis Presley and his music—and for all lovers of rock ‘n’ roll—this is a compelling story. Scotty Moore was a guitarist, recording engineer and record producer. As Elvis Presley’s first guitarist, he is considered one of the co-founders of rock ‘n’ roll. This was his first book with James L. Dickerson, his hand-picked biographer. He passed away in 2016 at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. His second book with Dickerson is titled, “Scotty & Elvis.” James L. Dickerson is an award-winning writer and journalist who is considered the ultimate authority on the music of the South—blues, country, and rock. He is the former editor/publisher of the once third-largest-circulation music magazine in the U.S., NINE-O-ONE Network. He is the author of Colonel Tom Parker: The Curious Life of Elvis Presley’s Eccentric Manager , which was purchased by Warner Bros. for its upcoming Elvis film starring Tom Hanks as the Colonel, and Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Dickerson’s music writing has received numerous awards over the years, but none as welcome as the one from the Library of Congress, which asked him in 2002 to write an essay on the Sun Records Sessions with Elvis (1954-1955) for permanent inclusion in the National Registry. KEITH RICHARDS of the Rolling Stones "Everyone else wanted to be Elvis—I wanted to be Scotty." PAUL McCARTNEY of the Beatles "When we were growing up in Liverpool the sound of Scotty's guitar on early Elvis records was nothing short of miraculous. It sounded to us like nothing we'd ever heard before and the gods in Valhalla couldn't have made a better sound. His technical skills, mixed with his sometime wild abandon, set the perfect tone for Elvis's vocals . . . Rest in peace Scotty, one of the great gods of the guitar." THE WASHINGTON POST "Of all the musicians who worked with Elvis, none was more important than his right-hand man, Scotty Moore." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Moore is modest, point-blank and disdainful of myth." GEORGE KLEIN Memphis radio and TV personality and longtime friend of Elvis Presley "Scotty was there from the beginning. I learned so much that I never knew . . . great insight to the early years. One of the best books on Elvis I ever read." CHIPS MOMAN Legendary Memphis record producer who restored Elvis' career with hits such as "Suspicious Minds" and "Kentucky Rain" "[Scotty's] music changed my life ... I always thought it was sad that Scotty and Bill didn't stay their whole career with Elvis. They were unique together." GARY TALLENT Record producer and former Member, Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band "We have studied what Scotty did more than he has—and I guess that's true for anyone in this [business]. Basically what he does is instinctive. He doesn't rely on a bag of tricks. He just plays and figures it out as he goes along. Rock 'n' roll is improvised music—and that's how he goes about it." BRUCE FEILER THE NEW YORK TIMES, August 10, 1997 "Perhaps because rock-and-roll is such a relatively young cultural form (not to mention one with lots of hyperbole), it seems at times overeager to bestow legendary status on its actors. Some figures became legend