Still Shorting New Orleans

Rick Coleman's Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'N' Roll (Da Capo), is a good but not great look at the hisory of New Orleans music and the life of Fats Domino. What keeps it from being essential is that Coleman never gets in to the music of Domino or New Orleans the way a Greil Marcus does in his books. Coleman also spends too much time placing Domino above or on an equal par with Elvis Presley. Obsessed was my thought. Domino's music was as timeless as Elvis, but Elvis was on another planet. White man or not, Elvis had the moment. My thoughts about Coleman's weak look at Domino's music was heightened by a lack of a discography. The book is best when it looks at the history of New Orleans. A good, but not essential book.