Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music

Nowhere to Run: The Story of Soul Music

Rating

8.0

The Pequod Review:

Gerri Hirshey's Nowhere to Run is structured as an oral history of American soul music. The extraordinary number of first-hand interviews (James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Sam King, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross, Jerry Wexler, and many others) make up for the gossipy nature of Hirshey’s writing and her lack of an informed musical perspective.