"The Next Elvis: Searching for Stardom at Sun Records," Barbara Barnes Sims (LSU Press)One thing Barbara Barnes Sims doesn't do in "The Next Elvis," the memoir of her time working at Sun Records in the late 1950s, is dish -- at least not in the way we've come to expect from music-business tell-alls that leave no lurid stone unturned.But oddly enough, Sims' politeness and vaguely formal style -- right down to Dickens-esque section headers like "A Nickname and an Amusing [...]
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