In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul music of the 60s. Full of personal interviews, this book goes in search of the artists behind this blend of music.
In the American South, blacks and whites have been influencing each other's music for generations, from the hymns of the 18th century to the soul musi...
No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the glamorous, debauched Los Angeles, and there is no city with more of a draw to musicians. Defined by the music of Brian Wilson, The Doors, Niggaz With Attitude, jazz, funk, soul, hip hop, and fulled by drugs, alcohol, sun, sex and surf, LA has seen it all. Barney Hoskyns tells the definitive story of L.A.'s post-war music scene and spent nearly a decade researching this account of music which developed into a culture of its own.
No city in the western world exerts such a fascination as the glamorous, debauched Los Angeles, and there is no city with more of a draw to musicians....
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success in the late Seventies.
The story of a remarkable time and place: Los Angeles from the dawn of the singer-songwriter era in the mid-Sixties to the peak of The Eagles' success...
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically acclaimed singer-songwriters alive today. After beginning his career on the margins of the 1970s Los Angeles rock scene, Waits has spent the last thirty years carving out a place for himself among such greats as Bob Dylan and Neil Young. Like them, he is a chameleonic survivor who has achieved long-term success while retaining cult credibility and outsider mystique. But although his songs can seem deeply personal and somewhat autobiographical, fans...
With his trademark growl, carnival-madman persona, haunting music, and unforgettable lyrics, Tom Waits is one of the most revered and critically accla...
What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into close-knit entourage that protected them, from Peter Grant to Richard Cole to Ahmet Ertegun, giant figures from long-vanished world of 1970s rock. This book is a history, adventures, myths and realities of this legendary and powerful of bands.
What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into close-knit entourage that protected them, from...
The Band was one of the most celebrated and influential groups to arrive on the music scene in the late 1960s. The Band's members - Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson and Levon Helm - fashioned something magically new out of musically traditional components: old-time country and gospel, Preservation Hall jazz, medicine-show vaudeville. They started as The Hawks, a teenage backup group for the rockabilly renegade Ronnie Hawkins, touring the endless highways through the heart of the South. Eventually they headed north, where they left Hawkins to become Bob Dylan's band...
The Band was one of the most celebrated and influential groups to arrive on the music scene in the late 1960s. The Band's members - Robbie Robertson, ...
From the offices of Rock's Backpages and edited by famed rock writer, critic and author Barney Hoskyns, The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Rock presents the most iconic pieces of rock music writing from the past half century. Coming at rock and roll from a different angle - with various takes on its love, its loathing and its access and excess, pieces include Al Aroniwitz documenting the Beatles' arrival in America; Nick Hornby reappraising pop deities Abba; and Will Self taking on Morrissey, just a few of the many stories selected from the rich RBP online library.
From the offices of Rock's Backpages and edited by famed rock writer, critic and author Barney Hoskyns, The Sound and the Fury: 40 Years of Classic Ro...
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock--the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident--was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the...
Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Wood...
Described by Rolling Stone as 'one of the greatest songwriters ever' and 'the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th century' by AllMusic , Joni Mitchell is one of the most respected singer-songwriters of her time. An anthology of the most incisive commentary on the extraordinary career of Joni Mitchell.
Described by Rolling Stone as 'one of the greatest songwriters ever' and 'the most important and influential female recording artist of the late 20th ...
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the rock landscape as a community of brilliant, and freaks dazed and confused by the search for spiritual truth. This is a study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.
Think 'Woodstock' and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival. But Woodstock itself was over sixty miles away, and already a key location in the r...
