Spiritualized’s J Spaceman & John Coxon Releasing Score For William Eggleston’s Stranded In Canton

In his documentary Stranded In Canton, William Eggleston captured life in Memphis in 1974 in all its rough-and-tumble splendor. Local luminaries from Alex Chilton, Furry Lewis, and even Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley make appearances. According to an old Dangerous Minds retrospective, there are rednecks on Quaaludes and a drag queen at a dive bar; a guy who bites the head off a chicken, and bank-robbing country singer Jerry McGill plays Russian roulette. Harmony Korine once called it the s...

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