Fifty years ago, when Greil Marcus published "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music," I was on the edge of 17, a high school senior living across the Red River from Shreveport, ...

Sun Studios, where Elvis Presley recorded “Mystery Train” in 1955. Photo by Kate Cauthen. Okay, so who still cares about the young Elvis and his Memphis-based Sun Records recordings? And why does ...

When "Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music" first rolled out of the station in 1975, it didn't sound like any other book about rock 'n' roll. Greil Marcus wasn't cataloging hits or ...

Colin Wessman is a Philadelphia-based writer who's trying his hand at freelancing for Collider. He spent several years writing for a video game/education company and even more years writing for the ...

When Greil Marcus published Mystery Train in 1975, it was hailed as the greatest book ever written about rock & roll. Fifty years after it came out, there's a lot more competition - but no other book ...