Little Labels Big Sound Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music
Rick Kennedy and Randy McNutt Foreword by Al Kooper
A wild ride through American popular music.
" T]hese cats had their ears to the ground and cut vinyl that created the hip sounds of the day, sounds that still reverberate today.... Little Labels Big Sound is a great primer into the history of these... independent record labels." Blue Suede News
" L]ike the labels it celebrates and the 45s and the 78s those labels put out... full of exciting and vital...
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Little Labels Big Sound Small Record Companies and the Rise of American Music
(Book). A rock 'n roll classic, back in print, updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever, Al Kooper's legendary Backstage Passes is available again Al's quirky life, from would-be teenage rocker, to crashing Bob Dylan's recording session and playing the organ on Highway 61, to forming Blood, Sweat, and Tears and masterminding the Super Sessions, it's all here...plus, in this updated version, Al rides with us all the way back to the end of the 20th century. There has never been a more wickedly humorous and honest book by a man who has made such rock history.
(Book). A rock 'n roll classic, back in print, updated and revised. One of the funniest rock memoirs ever, Al Kooper's legendary Backstage Passes is a...