cover image Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South

Rythm Oil: A Journey Through the Music of the American South

Stanley Booth. Vintage Books USA, $12 (254pp) ISBN 978-0-679-74174-9

Disjointed but ultimately interesting, this series of essays covers 70 years of Southern and Southern-influenced music and performers, from Robert Johnson to Otis Redding to Janis Joplin. Photos. (Apr.)