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Music Related Books

"When radio dark night existed
& assumed control, & we rocked in its web
consumed by static, & stroked w/fear
we were drawn down long from
a deep deep sleep, & awaken'd
at dayfall by worried quardeners
& made to be led thru dew wet
jungle to the swift summit, o'er looking
The sea. . . ."

Jim Morrison


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Amcrebelfan said:
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I was going to recommend this one as well. Here is another great one.
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I have this one and found some gems off of it. Sometimes I wish it was a digital playlist so it could update with new records, but the "1001 Movies to See Before You Die" is a great book from the same series as well. For all you audio-cine-philes crossovers like me!
 
I've read Ted Gioia's "How to Listen to Jazz" and "The History of Jazz" and was very appreciative of his articulate style and minimal use of heady terms, concepts, etc as I'm a Jazz guy at heart, but dang he makes all readers feel welcome as he doesn't gate keep anything that would discourage beginners or even interested listeners. http://tedgioia.com/

I posted his website as he's written quite a few other great pieces.
 
Montycat said:
My old friend Bob has a new book on Canadian East Coast musicians.

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That's awesome! I always like learning "sonic geography" of different countries, but he goes even deeper with East Coast region. Looks like this is a passionate endeavor for him as well, chronicling a lot of Canadian musical impact and history in his other books. I'd get this for my dad for a gift as he's more of the historian than I, but a cool link nonetheless @Montycat !
 
DonTeflon said:
I've read Ted Gioia's "How to Listen to Jazz" and "The History of Jazz" and was very appreciative of his articulate style and minimal use of heady terms, concepts, etc as I'm a Jazz guy at heart, but dang he makes all readers feel welcome as he doesn't gate keep anything that would discourage beginners or even interested listeners. http://tedgioia.com/

I posted his website as he's written quite a few other great pieces.
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His book on the history of blues was great. I read it before a trip down to the Mississippi Delta on a blues pilgrimage.
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If no one has recommended them yet, I highly recommend the Joel Whitburn books: Top Pop, every single that made the Bill Board's Hot 100, Bubbling Under the Hot 100, Pop Memories, Top Pop Albums (has the track listings for each album). These are invaluable for tracking down a song.

BTW, the Bubbling Under book has a bullet for gold records. I haven't run across one in the book yet, but that's interesting, a gold record that didn't make the Hot 100.
 
"SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP"
A MEMOIR
By Mark Lanegan
2020 published by White Rabbit
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Being a firefighter and dealing with homeless heroin addicts and meth heads on a daily basis, I have little compassion for their back story but this book reminded me that you can never know where a person's journey has taken them. Case in point, Mark Lanegan lead singer of the Screaming Trees, had an incredible journey from a Northwest backwater town through the 1990s Seattle punk scene and came out alive, so to speak. His writing style is engrossing and hard to to put down as he describes ever detail of his sex, alcohol and drug fueled rampage and the hilarious and often pathetic encounters with a who's who of 90s grunge rock royalty. He knew everybody and everybody knew him, or of him. His single minded, take no **** personality either impresses you or repels you. Only after reading his memoir do you get to see the thought process that guided this manic lifestyle and how his self abuse was calculated, as only a heroin and crack cocaine addict can rationalize.
It's a really good read but of you're into the 90s grunge scene at all, it's highly recommended.
 
I picked this up not that long ago. More for my music related bookshelf then anything else but It's a decent read and pretty funny. Who would have thought 78 collectors would scuba in a river looking for acetates.

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I'm definitely NOT a Country and Western "Fan" per se. But there are a few former and contemporary C&W musicians that I did admire. One was Johnny Cash. Another was Glen Campbell. And then there is Hank Williams. Some of Hank's hits were a bit too twangy for me to enjoy them, but some were so iconic and "catchy", that I can't help but to listen. Especially "Jambalaya On The Bayou". A cross-genre classic that was released just after Hank's untimely death in the late 50s. I recently watched the movie "I Saw The Light", the recent (2015) Hank Williams movie and enjoyed it. I immediately wanted to get his Biography to follow-up to that movie.

I picked this up on Thriftbooks. I'm reading it this weekend. So far, excellent;

Hank Williams - The Biography by Colin Escott

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The centerfold pics are excellent as well;

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