Five top rock-and-roll books

Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Paul Muldoon, whose new collection is The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics, picked his favorite rock-and-roll books for The Daily Beast.

One title on the list:The Chitlin’ Circuit: And the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll
By Preston Lauterbach

Among those precursors to whom Keith Richards is deeply indebted are the blues guitarists so memorably summoned up in Preston