Fifty years later, Greil Marcus' epic ‘Mystery Train' still shapes rock history

Daveed Diggs is slated to join Greil Marcus at a Bay Area Book Festival event this weekend to celebrate 50 years of "Mystery ...
AV Club

Jim Jarmusch poked holes in the hero worship of Elvis with Mystery Train

Released in November 1989, Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train is seen as the final installment in the deadpan, hard-luck trilogy he began with 1984’s Stranger Than Paradise and continued with 1986’s Down By ...
Iowa Public Radio

Roots of Rock: Guitarist Scotty Moore recounts playing with Elvis

Well, it took my baby, but it never will again, no, not again. GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is guitarist Scotty Moore, who we just heard on "Mystery Train," and he's written a new ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette

CRITICAL MASS | OPINION: How ‘Mystery Train’ showed me pop songs were maps of America — and that criticism could be art

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, ...