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Critical Praise

'Real rock 'n' roll literature -- a book with all the wily literacy of a Chuck Berry song."

——David Hajdu, author of Positively Fourth Street and Lush Life

Pink Cadillac will transport you to the birthplace and time of rock and roll. It also chronicles the beginning of the end for Jim Crow in the Memphis area. Imagine a young Elvis getting the fateful career exploding invite to come to New York. In a rush, he gives his pink Caddy to a young white hitch-hiking lady who drives it into potential stardom with detours along the way. The transition from black country blues and white hillbilly music into rock and roll takes place in a roadhouse outside Memphis. The characters are larger than life and yet believable in the way that it takes giants sometimes to effect cultural change. The author knows blues and early rock in the intimate way of a guitarist caressing people's lives out of his guitar strings. This is one super book!

——Book Sense 76 Citation

Pink Cadillac brings both of its milieus, the present world of record collecting and its 1950s Memphis setting, to brilliantly vivid life. Dunn has a remarkable ear for the nuances of dialogue, and he never misses a note. His astonishing portrayal of Thomas "Bearcat" Jackson, as a brilliant, flawed, larger-than-life tragic hero is achingly real.

——Karen McCullough, Scribes World