Handsome Victory - Paperback

by Craig Maki (Author)

Detroit, Michigan - 1957: A gifted young man's basement recording studio, in a house on a quiet block in a northwest neighborhood, serves as ground zero for one of the most exciting - and elusive - rockabilly records ever made. With cool bearing, rock'n'roll singer Vic Gallon helps set teen-aged guitarist Dennis Coffey - a future member of the Motown Records "Funk Brothers" studio band - on a path toward greatness ... and then disappears. The story ends there, until you pick up this book!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Craig Maki is the author of two more ground-breaking volumes on music history that reveal some of Detroit's important yet under-covered influences on American music - "Tomorrow Brings Memories: Detroit's First Underground Record Company" (Wax Hound Press, 2022 - AVAILABLE ON LULU.COM), and "Detroit Country Music: Mountaineers, Cowboys, and Rockabillies" with Keith Cady (University of Michigan Press, 2013). He also contributed to "Heaven Was Detroit: From Jazz to Hip-Hop and Beyond" (Wayne State University Press, 2016). Maki wrote liner notes for music reissues by Bear Family (Germany), Rollercoaster Records (England), and has furnished pieces to magazines such as American Music (Sweden), and Blue Suede News (U.S.A.). He enjoys playing music, collecting old records, art, design, and history. For ten years as "Bones" Maki, he hosted radio shows on public stations in Southeast Michigan, featuring rockabilly, and vintage country music. Find his blog at www.carcitycountry.com.